pilotdude wrote:
I feel exactly this also, but The people at Feld DO NOT CARE one bit about what you just said. To them it is just another ...more
pilotdude wrote:
I feel exactly this also, but The people at Feld DO NOT CARE one bit about what you just said. To them it is just another entertainment cash flow stream like all their others.
If I was someone for whom money was no object, I would provide the funding to increase the nationals to 15 rounds. Then I'd make the payouts for the top 20 riders so lucrative they could not refuse to ride the series. I would provide the funding to make every track's facilities world class. And I would have a rule for participating that said anyone who participated in a "supercross" series would be ineligible to ride the outdoor nationals.
I would kill deathcross and return the sport to its roots, where it all started.
"I would kill deathcross and return the sport to its roots, where it all started".
If that were to happen, it would kill the industry altogether. SX puts fans in the stands and makes money for the comanies in the industry, there's no question on that. MX does not. SX is a more watchable experience for casual observers. This past season I took my 70 year old mom to her first SX event and she loved it. Had a ball! She's been around racing, Nascar, MX, road racing, etc her whole life with my dad loving motorsports racing. She said it was easy to watch because of the short race formats (good for people with ADD). I started taking my wife to some SX events about 2 years ago. She too had a great time, thought it was fascinating. It's a great venue for casual fans and non-hardcore MX folks. It's a "production" or "show", not just a race event. Like it or not, that gets the seats filled and TV sets on with eyeballs watching. That in turn drives revenue.
I get that you are one of the hardcore MX fans, I too love it passionately. I'm glad if you had so much money that money were no object, you would put so much into MX. But the reality is, unless you win the lottery that's not going to happen. And if you did win the lottery and still did what you claim, you'd likely go broke eventually because it would be an sustainable financially losing venture. The solution is, getting fans in the seats and on TV. To get better riders, the industry needs to pay riders more money - but that doesn't happen without fans in the stands.
I don't know what it takes to get more money pumped into the industry. I just know that if you take away SX, it would be far worse for the industry instead of better.