Twins Cup

I raced my Grom and when I placed high enough Honda sent me a Visa card that I could spend anywhere I wanted. Therefore, I was a professional Grom racer.

 

Bring alcohol and tobacco back! And toss weed in too.

 

Question/observation: USPSA (practical shooting) acts more as an umbrella organization, local clubs affiliate and agree to a certain per shooter dues arrangement and to abide by a common rules package. The country is divided up into regional areas that host championships at that level, plus a national championship. Additionally there are special "major matches" which are sort of one off invitational type things. The nationally competitive guys travel around to the major matches, including various regional championship matches, and obviously go to nationals. While the local folks can just shoot matches near them. I have too many hobbies to travel around shooting so I shoot locals, but I enjoy the fact that I've shot with national champions and can then see very roughly how I stack up on a national level.

Would a similar arrangement work for club road racing?

 

Only club racers wear fanny packs. A pro racer would have a utility belt. With grappling hooks.

 

Not it the middle of live racing, I agree. That would only be during the playback.

Live races could have ads before and after the races.

Playback could have ads before and after the race, and an ad at the halfway mark.

 

Commercials before and after. Hell ford advertised for a couple weekends on live plus. And I’m surprised as to how many times Huey tells us to buy the motion pro tool, that there isn’t one in every household.

We DO need commercials on live+. My opinion is, is if it’s on live + it benefits motoamerica directly. Where as if the commercial is being played during the fs2 section, fs2 is benefiting.

And saying you won’t buy the package if they advertise is doing exactly opposite of what any series needs.

 

I agree. I edited my post above to be more clear.

I think live races can have ads before and after the race.

When watching the playbacks it can be before and after the races, and an ad the halfway mark.

At $80 bucks it's a great deal to the viewer but not a revenue boom to MotoAmerica. But if MotoAmerica can bring in some good revenue from ads on the Live+ it helps to make them stable longterm, which is great for me as the consumer.

 

Its such a brutal game though to chase every sponsor/ad/banner dollar and maximize every placement - then turn around and report the ROI (with pos spin no matter what happened) and remake the deals over and over. Without the manufacturers pouring money into the show, that makes that sell exponentially harder. The companies who's sandbox it is aren't showing...that would tell me more as a potential sponsor than most any sales pitch. I just wish one manufacturer would go all in similar to how Mazda helped save road racing in the US with manufacturer dollars providing a competitive ladder to pro racing.

 

Can we get back to Twins Cup and forget about all this nonsense talk? Thread was more entertaining then.

 

@ Steeltoe...

 

To the OP, I don't care what label you or other people put on the twins racers, but running 32s at Barber on a twins cup bike is smokin! Carry on with your bad self.

- from a slow AHRMA club racer

 

No thanks. I've watched pretty much every race since motoamerica began and would not subscribe again if they played commercials in the middle of a race, even on playback. If that means I'm not helping the series than so be it. I pay to be able to watch the races uninterrupted. If I wanted commercials I'd watch on Fox sports. I already think the superbike coverage is worse than it was on BeIn but no one else seams to believe that so I guess I'm on my own.