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The gas-gas idea is a bit left field, but actually makes some sense. The problem is that i doubt gas gas are ready to go right now. And the development work needed for next season....
It's never any one big thing but the financial bringdown was a component part of the top down attack on disposable income.
The sport began bleeding participants when the similarity of equipment was fractured.
R&D went into the four stroke, equipment, their advantage became crystal clear in race results which created a condition of "haves vs. Have nots".
Yes, "poverty sucks...can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.....go big or go home...too many went home.
I have friends to this day decent riders with their 2003 equipment gathering dust and when I try to get them to ride they don't even want to show up to be "smoked by everyone on $10,0000 EFI wonder bikes scrubbing past them like they're standing still".
Racing will always be about some guys having more than others but at least being on similar equipment while maybe not as trick or well maintained allowed guys to feel on par somewhat with more heavily funded rivals.
Race teams are tax writeoffs/loss leaders for the most part.
Most race team "sponsors" have heavily profitable businesses and if they didn't burn the extra $$$$ on advertising/promotion, it would get eaten up in taxes anyway.
Travis Pastrana got out of NASCAR because he didn't have one thousand thousand dollar bills in his own pocket to book a financial loss of that magnitude.
I hear now "electric bikes will save the sport".
Regardless of the opinions behind that assertion, it is just another fracture.
This isn't meant to be negative just some of my personal observations.
Go ride. Feel the joy regardless of what you choose or are able to do it on.
"Inferior equipment" is a state of mind.
But I could see a JGR GasGas easing the pain of starting up a full factory team.
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not sure why you are running that line?
everybody knows any bike can be made a qhole lot better if you want to spend.
Top shelf in house capability, and the equipment sponsors are there.
They'll take Alex Martin out this year.
Joe Gibb's honors.
A season of living within the means if it comes to that, will maximize any new title sponsor's investment.
It takes more energy to unwind something like that than to pear down.
They're still in it.
Glad to hear there is something in place for two riders and the staff. Alex was very open in his answers and explained the situation well, as did JBone in the video.
Worth pointing out Alex had no idea so many people want to see JBone removed from his post as team manager. He doesn’t see Jeremy doing anything wrong in terms of management or decision making, just doing what he can with the current situation.
Pit Row
Most recent article with figures that I could find, but 800k viewers for one race aint bad
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattrybaltowski/2018/05/13/supercross-caps…
Nascar total ~31mm, biggest race almost 5mm
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davecaldwell/2019/04/17/the-drop-in-nascar…
For any doubters, look what JGR did with Peick. He was a good rider at the end of 2014 but he definitely kept making steps forward in 2015-2018 with JGR.
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