VOLUME 57 ISSUE 17 APRIL 28, 2020 P21
always #readytorace but this
had me thinking a bit.
Feld is prepared to bring
back employees, and work with
the riders and teams to have
very limited amount of people
at the venue and in the sta-
dium. They will have multiple
health care workers to check
every single person's tempera-
ture and symptoms every time
we come into stadium. As well,
we will be the first sport back
to action while practicing social
distancing with some adjust-
ments to the racing and sched-
ule. Unfortunately, no fans will
be allowed at the stadium.
I know myself and almost
every person in our industry
has had some pay deduction
or even in extremes, they have
been laid off until we are back
racing. I feel as professional
supercross racers it's our jobs
to be ready to race and do our
jobs whenever called upon. As
of April 17th and possibly even
prior, riders got told of the pos-
sibility of racing May 15 which
made it fair to everyone to know
that in four weeks we could be
back racing. With bikes ready,
supercross settings we already
have, the 26 weeks of SX we've
already done this year (off-
season preparation) with 3-4
days of riding each of those
weeks (appx 95-105 days of
riding supercross total) I feel
like we should do our SX/MX
community a favor and try to be
ready to race. With that being
said, it gives us an opportunity
to grow our sport, give people
jobs back, and give all you fans
a chance to see us race on TV
while we do everything pos-
sible to stay safe, clean and do
the proper testing to insure we
don't spread this virus.
A bit of a rant but that's how
I feel; what do you guy think?
Would you like to see us race @
supercrosslive soon?
Few of the top riders have
publicly commented on the pos-
sible return to racing in May or
June. Monster Energy Yamaha's
Justin Barcia, posted: "It's look-
ing like a good possibility we
shall see… Lots of racing left
and a short amount of time be-
fore motocross, it's going to be
wild rest of the year, but this is
the kind of stuff I thrive in." CN
The 2020 outdoor motocross
season is still expected to get
underway this summer but
there are many questions yet
to be answered, including how
many rounds will be held.
