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Let me enlighten you....
Neckcar is established, they have a huge loyal following. They are not in the business of trying to develop a fan base.
Oh, and it's not Saturday night in California, it's like 2 in the afternoon when the mx races are on out here.
The Shop
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At least when it was a night race at lakewood some of these employees got to see some of the racing. But you ask these shops to SELL tickets to see your races but now because it on a saturday most cant go. Bravo DC.
At least when it was a night race at lakewood some of these employees got to see some of the racing. But you ask these shops to SELL tickets to see your races but now because it on a saturday most cant go. Bravo DC.
Saturday's are great. No rush... You can hang out and still have the rest of the weekend.
Pit Row
DC and all: For research sakes...what are the feelings of having qualifers leading up to a one 45 minute moto televised final on Sunday? Similar format as Supercross! In business, normally you would find the solution to the problem, not just move forward and create a different problem. I do not believe our current motocross stars are any different than the stars of the 70's and 80's... they are NOT looking for an EASIER SOFTER way! Maybe TV was, but not the motocross community of athletes/stars and enthusiasts! In other words, the problem was... how do we get more TV exposure and create a larger fan base thus positively growing our sport of motocross? Solution: Definitely NOT and obviously NOT moving to Saturday! Workable Solution: See above. Again...the PROBLEM or DESIRED SOLUTION is to gain more TV exposure, growing our fan base and GROWING OUR SPORT!
1) Create a 3rd Race Series. By shortening each individual series by as many as 6 races each, you now have a newly created 12 race Series (a combination of 6 Motocross races and 6 SX races that alternate each weekend) at the end of the year... to be known as the SuperMotocross Series or the MotocrossSuper Series. Thus, creating three distinctive series with the possibility of three different champions, or what I would prefer is having two Champions and one Grand National Champion. Fans would be watching "moto" all year long. I believe this would be a marketable format that would result in more TV exposure, similar to golf in that they have the PGA Tour and the so called "silly season" season that creates alot of TV for golf. Now add the Seniors Motocross and the Womens Motocross, again similar to golf, creating even more buzz on TV.
2) or perhaps, alternating weekends for each of the motocross and supercross series. This would no doubt create some "conflicts of interest" but would keep all fans, and I think most racers would want to race both series but you would not have a 3rd Series that is an exciting combination of the two series. I personally prefer Option 1 above.
3) In any case, I also believe that ALL races should be "Incentive Driven" with racers earning their money by WINNING, not paid very well before they ever compete each year. Do it like Golf... forget the team concept. Thus, creating larger purses for each race instead of highly paid Team individuals. The fans then are excited to watch the individual racer vying for the $500,000 purse race and showing the breakdown of the purse indicating what 2nd, 3rd...etc., what each position will earn. MONEY creates EXCITEMENT! Huge salaries do not. Each individual racer can have "endorsements (sponsors)" but each Series (e.g.; The PGA or the FedEx Golf Series, or its equivalent being the Toyota Supercross Series, and the newly created Muscle Milk National Motocross Series) and each individual Race will have its own sub-sponsor (e.g.: FMF sponsors the first race of the Muscle Milk Series, or AT&T sponsored first race of the Toyota Supercross Series similar to the way golf does it. Also, individual stars such as Jeremy McGrath or Roger DeCoster might sponsor another any of the other races in the Toyota Series. Again, similar to the way Golf has done it with the Bob Hope Golf Tournament or the former Bing Crosby or Dinah Shore Tournaments. Example: JS has an endorsement from L&M and others, just as Tiger is endorsed by Nike and others, and this one race in this example is sponsored by AT&T. Like golf, sponsors are allowed to add 2 or 3 "exempt" amateurs or privateers to their sponsored event.
4) I also feel that it would be beneficial to our sport if the Premiere division (450's/superstars) and second division (250's/up and comers) were not at the same events. The 250's could follow up the weekend after the 450's. Golf has the PGA tour for the superstars and The Nationwide Tour is for the up and comers... totally seperate tournaments. This would create more TV events, thus more exposure and more fans. This also DOUBLES the amount of qualifiers and racers for each division (450's and 250's) at each race, thus more fans, more revenue, more income available to all racers, all OEM's,etc., etc. Now that more SX Stadiums as well as more Race Tracks for Nationals are vying for events at their venues, (i.e.; The Coliseum has taken Anaheim2) lets make Anaheim2 and the Coliseum the experiment. Anaheim 2 is for the up and coming 250's and the Coliseum is for the Superstar 450's. And add the WMA to Anaheim2 with the 250's.
5) We need to distance our sports, MX and SX from the FMX "badass lifestyle and environment".
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