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2/5/2019 7:30pm
2/5/2019 7:30pm
With all the shit that is carried around by Feld, ama and fim why not start a new sanctioning body? I've seen some other motor sports get away from established promoters with a more organic approach that is developed by those who are truly vested in the sport and have some success
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Imagine if they took the AMA and FIMs money and just gave it straight to the riders.
Hire 1 referee from the AMA, you know the guy who loses his job when the ama/FIM loses the contracts!
It takes a lot of money.
Hell, a lot of it is just having the right connections.
And you can't just go out and buy goodwill.
Someone has to line up the tracks. Someone has to line up the lawyers and get the insurance for the events. Someone has to put up a purse, or make it worthwhile for top level guys to wanna run.
Someone has to promote it. Someone has to write a rule book. someone has to make the deals with every landowner or stadium for each event. Which will all have to jive with some kind of realistic schedule. One assumes this new series will offer health and accident insurance for the riders. Someone will have to line that up and pay for it.
Someone will have to organize a tech inspection team and track workers. Someone one will have to organize parking people. Someone will have to line up some kind of security at the gates. Someone will have to take in the money. Someone one will have to account for the money. Someone will have to order and get the trophies. Someone will have to get the girl to kiss the winners. There will have to be an announcer. Who will do that? Someone one will have to build a podium. Someone will have to have a truck to transport the podium from race to race.
Someone will have to build and tear down the podium at each event.
Someone will have to build the track. Someone will have to line up 2 ambulances st each event. Someone will have to clean up each venue of all the trash at each event.
Who's gonna gamble and pay for all of that?
And really, the big obstacle to overcome, imo, is why your series is worth more, to everyone, than what is running now?
Jeremy McGrath never ran or won a Championship in your series. Or RC. Or Brad Lackey. Or DeCoster.
There is no baseline to compare who wins today to who won on the past.
That's why nobody does it.
Remember the USFL?
Pit Row
(*Note that the FIM and AMA are a package, with the AMA being the FIM's little brother. You're not going to split that relationship).
However, good luck to Feld in getting manufacturer support or any top riders for their new series. The OEM's have too much investment in the FIM in terms of other racing series' and activities to dump the entire relationship over supercross (let alone over message board gripes). So I doubt there will be any factory teams in Feld's new breakaway supercross series.
There's nothing stopping the top riders from independently 'following the money' across to Feld's new megabucks supercross series but they'd be doing it without OEM contracts. So I doubt that'll happen.
This weekend, Monster Jam runs four events this weekend in four different cities.
The weekend after - six events in six cities:
Worcester, Massachusetts
Oakland, California
Cleveland, Ohio
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Miami, Florida
Looking at the schedule there's 95 Monster Jam events Feld will run until the end of May.
Which series really pays for the dirt? Not supercross. Think someone can run any breakaway series without owning these stadium dates and the dirt that goes in there?
But what would be Feld's incentive? I assume Feld pays a licensing fee to AMA, but is it significant? I'm guessing it's not a huge amount. I'm sure they have a good thing going now, and there's no reason to rock the boat.
Looking at the sport as a whole, i see so many issues from the pro level down to local levels, having many different promoters, sanctioners or just local track owners all doing w/e fits their whims...basically too many people having too many different agenda's and not coming together.(not unlike how the teams at pro level need to come together to improve pro level racing)
There is nothing wrong with the way SX is being run. We should feel fortunate anyone wants to take on the task of renovating these stadiums week in and week out. Im nothing but impressed every time I go to a SX and see how well it is ran....flawless the majority of the time. Mother nature can screw up the best of plans
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