Ok I'll bite. How does it do that? At it's purest level, it's money gathered, and used, to support a racing program. Sounds like many sponsorships to me. At the most elemental level.
I think people confuse the word Donation with Sponsorship. Sponsorship provides ROI (return on investment) to the sponsor. GoFundMe at its purest level is begging for money (or asking for a donation). (I am specifically talking about motorcycle racers not other things on GoFundMe) Ride safe, AAron
From the 2017 CCS rule book for Daytona 200 2.2 LICENSE REQUIREMENT – All riders participating in qualifying or racing must have a valid Expert Road Racing license and a minimum of one (1) year Expert level road racing experience. ASRA reserves the right to refuse any competitor a competition license or grant exception to these requirements Ride safe, AAron
All racing is club racing. If you have to buy a membership, it is club racing. It the organization charges you to be there, it is club racing. Period.
Sponsorship could also be considered begging for money. I just think your limiting this too much. Some folks get enough ROI by knowing they helped someone they enjoy watching race. There are some GoFundMe type benefits that do what's called "perks" those can be anything from swag, to personalize messages, to behind the scene experiences.
Ok I'll rephrase this then to your wording. GoFundme is the laziest form of soliciting sponsorship (in most cases). I have seen a few clever ones though like donate x get a free shirt, y gets you weekend race passes, etc. to me that's a great way to go about it if you are going to go that route anyway. I've "donated" plenty of money over the years to help peoples racing programs but all of my donations have been to people who have not asked but I knew could say, use someone anonymously picking up their tire bill for the weekend, couple cans of go fast juice, etc. I've seen fundraiser events too that were a good idea. I just struggle with some of these people spending all of 5 minutes setting up a gofundme page and expecting money.
Not much race to talk about yet. D200 Practice starts at 9AM, but I don't think there is any live timing. First of the Q sessions is at 10:45AM.
Hope not since he does The teams also pay entry fees I believe - I know NASCAR does and their drivers pay for a license every year.
Agreed. And it isn't sponsorship, it is purely begging, plain and simple. I've seen them all over the place. Even seen them on TDJ. Guys being like "I want to get into track days, please donate"...or "I've decided to give racing a try, I've setup a GoFundMe page so you can contribute to my program". What "program"? You are going online, into a group of peers, begging for money. That isn't a program, that is an online version of standing on the corner with your hand out. Except you aren't starving for food...you are asking other people, who are working hard to fund their OWN riding, to give you money to pay for yours. Fuck off with that shit.
I have a hard time picking a winner, but I'm gonna go with slick, if he doesn't punch anyone tonight. Should be a good race! And who cares who is "pro". The 200 is gonna be a bunch of haul ass mother fuckers, that's all we need to know. This. If you're sponsored, your job is to promote and sell, and also show that you use it as a successful racer. The most important thing is promoting the product. The only time I'd even consider supporting a Gofundme racer, is if someone is doing a one off like getting an entry in the TT, or some unique event like it. And that would be out of kindness to help a friend chase the dream for just one day.
