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opportunities that kind of sat in
front of this GasGas brand and
Troy Lee, which is obviously
already a fun brand, and how
we were going to make that dif-
ferent. We looked at the sched-
ule and said, if they're not
going to go to Anaheim, well,
we will, because you can't have
a season without Anaheim. You
can't have a NASCAR season
without Daytona. So, we fig-
ured if the series won't go, we
will, and check that box. With
Justin having won the previous
two Anaheim's and the TLD
race team's history of doing
really well at Anaheim, it made
sense to just take advantage of
the situation. Likely in '22 we'll
be back racing Anaheim. It
was really kind of one of those
opportunities that only existed
this year. It was more expen-
sive than I think we all wanted,
but we all thought it was worth
it at the end of the day.
Let's talk about how it
actually happened. What did
it take to pull that off and to
pull that stunt off?
I guess it was a coincidence
because Jason, the CEO of
TLD, his neighbor is the presi-
dent of the Angels. I think he
just walked down and knocked
on his door and asked him
if we could rent the stadium.
I don't know how to rent a
stadium. I have no idea. So that
snowballed into them calling
us. I think because the presi-
dent came to his staff and said,
"I want this to happen," they all
made it happen. So, we got the
stadium rental. They were actu-
ally happy because [the sta-
dium] got about $90,000 [that
will help pay to redo the base-
ball field]. They have a grass
field. They have to take care of
it. So, they were happy with any
revenue that they could get.
They were really accommodat-
ing in that sense. That made it
easy. Then we just had to find
a ramp and a landing and a
pyro guy. So, it was a scramble
for two weeks, but it ultimately
came together.
Red Bull, TLD/GasGas, Barcia
and Angel Stadium found a way
to pay tribute to the Anaheim
1 Supercross, which will be
Anaheim None this year.
