The SuperMotocross World Championship series is the offspring of a conversation that initially focused on how to develop a combined media rights package for the two most extensive motorcycle racing sanctioning bodies. Like most offspring, the SuperMotocross World Championship series will exhibit traits from both parent businesses.
A three-race playoff series will be held at the end of the motocross season, and it was confirmed last week by Monster Energy Supercross and Lucas Oil Pro Motocross. The new series will have a $10 million budget.
However, that wasn't the intended outcome when the first discussions began.
Dave Prater, vice president of Supercross, said, "It was the result of media rights," he recently told. "When we jointly acquired the media rights As began speaking with various businesses, one of the comments we heard was that the modern sports fan wants a post-season playoff in addition to a World Series or Superbowl to end the season. It looked like the proper course of action since we heard that from several groups.
The length of each series is one of the main barriers that Supercross and Motocross must overcome to approach TV corporations.
Supercross runs for around four and a half months, starting in January.
Pro Motocross is shorter at three and a half months, with fewer rounds but more A-Mains, but most of the same riders participate in both and have always had an eight-month season.
By adding a three-race playoff, the season will last nine months, placing the sport in the same league as two other calendar-dominating sports like NASCAR or the National Hockey League.
Although leaders in both firms may have had something on their radar for some time, the timing was not always ideal.
The COVID-19 epidemic, which caused sports to be suspended for several months, had little positive impact. Still, while Supercross and Motocross debated the difficulties in determining when and how to resume competition, their relationship evolved little. They then realized that their present media rights agreements were almost about to expire simultaneously.
"Our team used this for the first time "Contracts were this close together," MX Sports Pro Racing CEO Carrie Coombs-Russell told a well-known channel. It gave us a fantastic opportunity to examine our shows and recognize that if we could approach the market jointly, we would have a greater chance of putting together a very excellent television package.
For an entirely new hybrid course, Supermotocross will incorporate characteristics from both the stadium and outdoor seasons.
Media Align
The components were more significant than the whole, and this was true.
As they started having these discussions, it became clear that a broader drama was at play.
In a sport like motorcycle racing, where injuries and physical exhaustion are common, eight months is an extended period. A rider's career injury rate and severity are the real concerns, not if they will occur. Riders may miss a season to relax or recover so they can perform at their peak the following year.
Throughout the game's long history, in both significant, The same rider has won r class championships 12 times.
Eli Tomac, the current Supercross champion, is in first place in the Pro Motocross standings and is expected to join the list in 2022.
Riders will have the chance to win three championships in a season starting in 2023 in what would be a third hybrid sport.
Supercross and motocross strive to maintain their individuality when a child is born, much like parents do.
The beauty of this, according to Prater, is that it combines two sports with genuinely distinctive specialties. "Supercross comes first, and then motocross."
The details of how to increase some stadiums' footprints to add pieces are still being worked out t VGhe the same rider has won R class championships 12 times.
Eli Tomac, the current Supercross champion, is in first place in the Pro Motocross standings and is expected to join the list in 2022.
Riders will have the chance to win three championships in a season starting in 2023 in what would be a third hybrid sport.
Supercross and motocross strive to maintain their individuality when a child is born, much like parents do.
The beauty of this, according to Prater, is that it combines two sports with genuinely distinctive specialties. "Supercross comes first, and then motocross."
The details of how to increase some stadiums' footprints to add pieces are still being worked out peristyle before charging ferociously back into the stadium.
SuperMotocross aims to resurrect this kind of activity. With a good deal of originality and a touch of both racing philosophies.
According to Prater, this novelty means that we are innovating as we go. The difficulty is that we are restricted (in Supercross). We lack the room to construct an actual motocross-style circuit. One of the bigger arenas is the LA Coliseum. The fact that we can ascend to the peristyle makes it ideal.
To accommodate this, "we are looking for locations that can fit a huge track like this, such as speedways, or simply interesting locations in general."
Login To Leave a Comment