FELD at Ausx

I think Mike Muye presented one of the awards, probably the SMX Next award. 

Australia would absolutely fit their aspirations for a global event. The AFL/Cricket stadiums are enormous and have way more floor space than anything in the US would and could fit a legitimate hybrid track. The WSX rounds seemed to be the best attended and operated in Aus, so it seems to have the best market for them as well. 

Plus they would be able to use Bailey’s local promotion/organisation to execute. 

Good lord

Probably linked to the development class now being formally linked and named as a feeder to the US SMX Next class.

An Aussie fly away round for AMA SX would be outstanding and well supported here, but not sure how the US teams would feel about that. We're a long way away!

ChampCar has done it too in Australia (at Surfers Paradis) when they went international.

Mike is a good dude. Feld and the Aussie folks are smart to be looking towards Australia and Oceania for upcoming riders that might miss Loretta's and the stateside SMX Next events... 

It would probably be an smx playoff round with feld footing the bill, from what Mike had said before on Pulpmx.

Smx as a huge three round international series would actually be pretty cool. It would actually feel special if they did it that way. Would cost them money though, so best we can do is an amphitheatre owned by a sponsor with grass seating.

Adam Bailey and the Aus team have managed to get a 40k+ crowd to their banner Aus-X Open event in years past with high profile special guests such as the Lawrences, Cooper Webb etc. This is at the indoor Marvel Stadium which holds approx 55,000. 

An SMX Final or even a fly away SX round with all of the top names would sell it out easily. 

IF AusX became an AMA round, it’d be a rather large event of turns, considering Bailey was one of the SX Global cohort who reportedly upset Feld and teams by turning up at a supercross unannounced just a few years back.

The renaming of the Oz development series to SMX surprised me. Definitely some money changed hands there. Naming rights are never free. But who paid who? Or allowed what to happen?

Feld filed a trademark for SMS Next and SMX Next Australia on 10th September...

https://ausxsupercross.com.au/smx-next-australia/

Bailey was part of the entourage though right?

https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/moto-related/smx-league-partners-ausx-supercross-championship-create-smx-next-australia 

Yes. However, from what I remember(and that is the sketchy part), Bailey was the one trying to cool down his side(WSX) and play the middle man. 

Perhaps Bailey can show Feld how to build real Supercross tracks again 

I thought that place was the best location for an SMX race. Even the venue being a mix of stadium and outdoors. 

But I do love the idea of an SMX final in some giant stadium in Aus!    

  Adding elevation into the tracks is something I like to see. I have an almost entirely flat 5 acres of land that I've been building a track and trails on, and I really miss having hills and natural elevation to work with like I have on other tracks I've built.  Natural hills make it so much easier to make cool features.  Without them it takes so much dirt to make anything cool.  I think that putting an SMX round on at a track that's a natural bowl, or on a hillside  that would provide great viewing for every seat similar to stadium races would be another cool way of having a race like that. Or a track like Glen Helen with the giant hills and jumps. Sucks that place is not still a part of the MX series.

Maybe they were here to see how the Aussies manage to let electrics race since it looks so complicated for Feld 🤡

Hopefully they took notice of the track, it was much better than the copy paste cookie cutters we have had the last few years