EBR's Plans for Racing in the Near and Long-Term Future

[buell-fan]

Helping the privateers at the club level with contingency win money would be dollars well spent. Just one podium finish would help pay for the years' wear items and, for EBR, it would help sell bikes so it would pay for itself. As for EBR shelling out $25k to $10k for podium finishes, that is a lot of money and takes several bikes sales to recoup. So starting slow and at the privateer/ club level may be the way to go. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that EBR does "reward" Splitlath and their riders for podium finishes now.

[Scott]

As for EBR shelling out $25k to $10k for podium finishes, that is a lot of money and takes several bikes sales to recoup.

Think about it this way: How many podiums did EBR get from Eslick, May, Pegram and Cory West? I'm thinking maybe 5 or 6 total in the several years they were putting a serious effort into AMA racing. With my model, they'd probably pay $70,000 - $80,000 for all the podiums they ever had. Do you think they put more than $70,000 - $80,000 into their AMA racing over those years?

I don't think the money they'd put out would be the downside. I think it's more likely there wouldn't be any riders collecting, but even if they could get someone taking $500 here and $250 there in Superstock, that would be a bigger MotoAmerica presence than they currently have, and I think every dollar they would pay out under such a structure would be well worth it.