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If supercross is so popular and “makes so much money” and is where all the manufacturers want to be then why has no SX series been created or perhaps hasn’t been successful in Europe? I know they have some one off races like Bercy etc.
With FIM sanctioning the AMA SX series why has no SX series started in Europe?
With FIM sanctioning the AMA SX series why has no SX series started in Europe?
I’m an outdoor fan and couldn’t care less about SX. I’ll watch it but MX is where it’s at for me.
Just find it curious there is no major sanctioned SX series over there considering riders in the US and manufacturers in the US consider it so much important and lucrative compared to MX. Why is Europe opposite of that it seems. Especially when races like Bercy seem popular with fans.
If there were a big SX series, I could imagine a motocross des nation and perhaps someday a supercross des nations. Right?
Feld has done it before.
They did some in 05 I believe. The cost of shipping everything over is astronomical.
I went to Switzerland in 01 with the Arenacross guys and my boy Hofmaster and had an amazing time.
Bercy is Arenacross style too. Tight.
Remember the one where it rained? Seville? Was it Hurley that did good I think?
The riders want it, I can tell you that.
The Shop
I know the arena's are smaller and all but what takes place in those arena's during the winter months? Any sports? Just concerts? I have no idea.
Sorry for all the air quotes.
My answer would be start up costs, logistics, weather and a promoter willing to do so.
Feld has a trademark on the word “Supercross” also so its a bit of a gamble.
You will see more Feld SX overseas in the future.
When and how many is the question.
Guy B, your thoughts.....?
Is not a SX serie in Europe maybe because it rains more than in the places where the races are made in the USA, and the big European stadiums usually can not close the roof.
The rain has annoyed some important supercrosss, even in the south of Europe, as in Spain on at least two occasions and that can mean the ruin of the promoter.
The stadiums normally made by SX in Europe are small and with a closed roof.
Then they make dangerous circuits where sometimes riders are seriously injured with what there are teams that do not let their riders participate.
Then there is the issue that there are no supercross circuits to train and perhaps there are not because of the subject of more rain.
https://www.motorsport.com/bike/news/supercross-thq-world-supercross-gp…
http://racerxonline.com/2013/06/19/the-list-jts-best-stories
Hurley
Sevilla World Supercross: In 2002-2004, supercross went global. Two events would be held overseas during the winter. One of the events was held in the fall of 2003 in Sevilla, Spain. A beautiful city in southern Spain, Sevilla is supposed to have great weather that time of year, but unfortunately we didn’t see it. We landed on a Wednesday and from the time we landed until the time we flew out the following Tuesday, it never stopped raining. There was so much mud and water on the track, I honestly did not think a race was possible. I won the LCQ that night (shocker) and literally ghost rode my 450 across one of the ponds in the track. I did it every lap! There were riders down in the section every time I came to it so instead of crashing into the water and being stuck, I decided that launching my bike across it and running to the other side, picking up my bike and continuing was my best bet. While it’s not something I recommend, it worked out in that case and is something I will never forget.
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/photo-gallery/2004-supercross-west-rds/#
Langston
There just doesn't really seem to be time for it if you wanted the best guys from the GPs racing in the SX league.
If you take the biggest events from the series and one offs and merge that in an 8 race serie you actually have a pretty decent base to start from. Wont happen though because all promoters have to give up control and a bunch of their events.
They (Europe / Britain / Australia and others) have their various (in some cases, long standing) SX / Arena X series', and big one - off events. Those, combined with the broadcasting / streaming of the US SX 'World Championships', well - it's probably as much SX as the sport can stand. And there's soon to be more of Felds' events, I'm sure.
I've followed SX since the first LA event, pay for, the (unfortunately often piss poor) SX stream, pay for the US Outdoors, and pay for the GPs. I love the Sport, overall. The one of those 3 I watch in precedence, is the GPs. I tend to just play catch up on SX during the week when the GPs start, and the same with the US Outdoors. It's just what I hold more dear - The World Motocross Championships.
It would be good to see Feld try to have a couple of events of their FIM World SX Championships overseas - hell, even if it's just to Hawaii, but .you'd still, largely, have the usual riders doing them. I'd never expect GP riders to risk themselves in the Circus that is SX, when they have a Job to do, in the World Championships Of Motocross.
Pit Row
To be honest, I'm glad we don't have a big SX series. I'm getting increasingly bored and frustrated by the SX in the US. For me it's just a time filler until the GP's and then the Nationals start
Plus as others have said, the stadiums are used for football/soccer pretty much solidly
You have very big "shows" which people attend just one time and then never again and this is more than enough to fill a stadium at every event. I would say that probably 80% of the people at a SX event doesn't even know who those guys are, but most of the seats are filled and the organizers make big money out of that anyway.
You're even able to make money out of events like monster trucks, which could work maybe one time here, but not for an entire season, every year. It would be a complete failure here in Europe.
My idea is that you could fill a stadium with whatever kind of "circus" you can think of, and SX is just that, a "circus".
I see families at your SX races, a whole lot of kids of any age, and this means money is coming to the organizers on a regular basis. Here, even at Bercy, which is the most famous and bigger SX, almost all the people attending is a MX enthusiast and you don't see a single kid. This, in my opinion, means that only a single event could work, not an entire series.
And think about it, you do a lot of different things that we don't fully understand, like racing cars in oval tracks or trying to hit a ball with a stick and running around the field.
Then there's the stadiums problem, all of them are used for football, and I hate football, we have definitely too much football here.
GPs start in February.
Very few close roofed stadiums.
European climate doesn’t allow for outdoor stadiums to be utilized.
Climate in the US allows for certain outdoor stadiums to be used 365 days per year. On top of that, we have several domes that can hold events.
The novelty of SX is gone, the tracks need changing to allow racing , as it is now its almost a case of synchronised performance.
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