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12/15/2017 10:48am
12/15/2017 10:48am
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12/16/2017 10:55am
I was looking at the results from the www.victory-sports.com "indoors" e and it amazes me that MORE don't take advantage of the series to get ready for east/wests coast 250 supercross OR arenacross series. The races pay out $800 per class & race fri/sat november 23-feb 24 so its a quick series. IF a racer won EVERY main event in both classes would equal $22,400 in purse $$ alone plus contingency, etc....
I've always believed that "Racers" should RACE and there are 52 weekends in a year to race YET so many racers who say there "job" is a professional racer yet they don't race near the potential they could in a given year. If you relate racing to work, I know my boss wouldn't keep me employed if I only work 1/2 the time. IF I was racing as a job, you bet your @$$ I'd be at Victory sports indoors, overseas events, canadian, or whereever I could race to earn $$ and more gate drops
I've always believed that "Racers" should RACE and there are 52 weekends in a year to race YET so many racers who say there "job" is a professional racer yet they don't race near the potential they could in a given year. If you relate racing to work, I know my boss wouldn't keep me employed if I only work 1/2 the time. IF I was racing as a job, you bet your @$$ I'd be at Victory sports indoors, overseas events, canadian, or whereever I could race to earn $$ and more gate drops
Just because they’re not racing doesn’t mean they’re not working.
Mike Brown once said that he used to race the Ultra/Mega series against guys like Jim Chester and Jim Neese. They raced for $400/moto and those guys would kill you for it. Lol
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look at the entry list from 2017 Atlanta SX JUST for the 250 class = 50 entries: IF you look at what these racers earned for 2017 year in $$$, I think we all can agree more racers should race more, have a 2nd job, OR they are racing on parents dime
250 MAIN PURSE
1. $3350
2. $2325
3. $1825
4. $1625
5. $1550
6. $995
7. $977
8. $928
9. $875
10. $865
11. $855
12. $845
13. $835
14. $825
15. $815
16. $805
17. $795
18. $785
19. $775
20. $765
21. $755
22. $745
TOTAL: $24,915 (2015 TOTAL: $23,700)
250 LAST CHANCE PURSE
1. Transfer to Main
2. Transfer to Main
3. Transfer to Main
4. Transfer to Main
5. $576
6. $576
7. $576
8. $576
9. $576
10. $576
11. $576
12. $576
13. $576
14. $576
15. $576
16. $576
17. $576
18. $576
19. $576
20. $576
21. $576
22. $576
That series is based in Tennessee and North Carolina...it only makes sense for say a rider based at Club MX or somewhere in that area to try the series and they'd only do the first three of seven rounds as the Supercross and Arenacross series starts and conflict with all remaining rounds. The payout isn't worth it for anyone on the West coast, travel and accommodations would cost more than you'd make.
Also using it to get ready? It's not a Supercross track, it's not going to help them very much in the sense of training...
Until you've been in a top rider's shoes, it's hard to demand and say how you'd do it so much differently. If you're on the outside looking in of main events, sure, racing as much as possible for money is good. Once you're in the show, your results there ARE your job and what your focus needs to be around. So how and where you train, testing, bootcamp, etc...not running around the East Coast riding a small indoor series.
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