SENIOR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS - SUPERCROSS, MIKE MUYE
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Interview
times to hold the remaining
seven races still left on the
schedule?
Yes, that's really where we're
at right now. You've seen ev-
erything that's come out from
our media team, stating kind of
where we're at as far as the event
cancelations thus far and the
season being postponed. We're
looking towards the future. We
are going to host seven rounds at
some point in the future. Venue
availability is what we're work-
ing through right now, to see
what's out there. A lot of these
venues have tenants that would
be playing. They're kind of in the
same holding pattern that we
are, so once things start to ease
up restrictions-wise, everybody's
going to kind of be vying for the
same availability. So just kind of
monitoring that situation, staying
in communication with a few of
the different venues that are on
the list as well as potential oth-
ers, [if] we need to go that route.
In a best-case scenario,
when do you think you might
have the next race?
It's hard to tell right now.
Everything's changing so rap-
idly. Just a few days ago it was
announced that social distancing
was extended through the end
of the month [April]. It is kind of
hard to tell, but it would likely
be towards the latter end of the
year when we finalize the 2020
season.
Knowing stadium availabil-
ity will be difficult, will you still
try to have races in the same
stadiums that were canceled/
postponed, or are you pre-
pared to conduct races at
non-traditional venues, such
as outdoor NASCAR facilities
like Daytona?
We're not looking so much at
the stadiums that were originally
scheduled, we're looking at [tra-
ditional stick and ball] stadiums
Supercross was enjoying one of its best seasons ever when things sadly came to a stop.
