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1. Get title sponsor ($$$)
2. Get sponsors for other portions of race-day (pits, finish line, tuff blocks, etc) ($$$)
3. Create lucrative payout for top riders. This would enable a top 30 group of riders to actually travel from city to city, being paid enough each weekend to fund the next week comfortably. You better believe there are 30 dudes in AMerica that would do this, AND would be at a talent level that would be appropriate.
4. Figure out a way to stream it live FOR FREE. Again, not hard with sponsors, ads, etc.
You do all that, and I guarantee you that Vital sees posts of "Did you see the block pass on XYZ last night in the "Chevy Trucks SuperX Series"??? We'd start following the riders, the standings, and cheering for these sub-par racers. Hell, I'd hazard we might actually enjoy the racing just as much as it would be slower, filled with mistakes, and some aggressive racing cause these guys are racing for the week's pay.
the whole concept is no different than arenacross which had a helluva run. Just take out the quirky tiny-track aspect and make them real tracks (at even practice SX tracks throughout the country) and it could be great fun.
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A little competition can be good. If the worst thing to come about from it is a higher payout for the riders in Monster Energy SX then I guess there is still a win. Even if it was a series more for kids before they go pro in SX or privateers that would like to see a bigger payout than what they see now and tamer tracks that would be longer than an AX.
The only one really losing out in my opinion is FELD, or would it just force them to share a bigger piece of the pie?
If the series were geared more towards privateers or retired racers that maybe want to throw their leg over the bike again here or there than that doesn't take anything away from SX. Being that the factories wouldn't be for it, it would be hard to get factory riders to come out if a series would start; maybe never get factory riders to come out. If the best thing that came from it would be a higher payout I would be for that.
I'm not necessarily looking out for the factory guys because they do get good bonuses and sponsorship deals, but $4300 for 3rd place in a 450 SX main is pathetic in 2019.
It's hard to disagree with that point when you consider the cost of a new bike, a pick-up truck, insurance and compare it to the income of a guy in his 20's.
Pile on all the crazy changes going on in our culture, not as many kids are even getting interested in the sport in the first place.
Enjoy it as much as you can... Things like this disappear fast when they are no longer profitable.
If someone could get some serious title sponsors, there would be PLENTY of sponsors that would throw some money at this. Simplify production (lose all the circus BS that is associated with SX), run them at car tracks, outdoor SX tracks, etc...stream them live (they stream LL's) and pay the hell outta the riders - and boom - you have a viable series that can grow.
and knowing whta a bunch of motoheads you guys are...despite your resistance - you'd cheer them on and support it.
If not, then a new series would be a tier lower than Supercross. Would a series like that do any better than Arenacross?
you guys are overthinking things.
Some of this is that you're assuming fans will only show up for big-name riders, OEMs, etc...but they also pack MonsterJam and nobody gives a shit about the drivers or the trucks - they come for a good show. I bet that if you could put on some great heads-up racing presented in an intelligent format, you could get it off the ground.
It's no different than this new football league - they are B-level players putting on a good show and attendance has been "ok" so far. Maybe it picks up, maybe it falls to pieces. But I think SX is different than football, because fball requires an emotional component of "cheering" for your team - SX just requires good racing.
Oh well - we'll probably never know but it's a fun mental exercise.
Yeah because they’re all beating down the door right now for the main series in major stadiums with an nbc tv package and the backing of every major motorcycle company in the game
Not impossible but not nearly as easy as you are thinking.
One other question is,Do any of the business minded guys on here actually have and run a business?
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Jeez, you guys have overcomplicated a most simple hypothetical question posed by OP and turned it into some sort of defensive argument against an alternate series as if it's going to ruin the entire sport.
That was a good read.
The most surprising thing, to me, was the guy that split from the powers that be, won in the end.
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