Scott Bannan Promoter of the opening two rounds of the 2016 Australian Supercross Championship has announced that the Jimboomba and Toowoomba rounds of this years series will see a increase in rider prizemoney and the added bonus of television coverage. After successfully hosting two rounds of the 2015 supercross series at Jimboomba, Bannan has spent considerable time talking to the riders who contest the Australian supercross championship, from the series front runners, through to the privateers who spend endless hours and dollars crossing the country to contest the national series and has put in place some ideas that he feels will help the sport to grow in a upwards direction.
"Every promoter has a different approach, opinion or business model from State races to National races from MX to SX. What I do know is, I have a lot of the top riders at my training facility during the week and I class a lot of these riders as personal friends. So I'm always asking the guys what they like or don't like about our sport and how I can make SX better." Bannan stated in an interview that was posted on the Australian Supercross facebook page this evening.
"I mean at the end of the day the riders and their teams are my customers. To be successful in any business you have to have happy customers."
"There's other things as well but as a promoter, you realise that it‰Ûªs pretty hard to keep everyone happy." Bannan continued. "Look, you could say these first two Queensland rounds are like a litmus test for us.
The first two major points of interests for riders planning on racing this years championship are both the reduced entry fee for all classes at the opening two rounds along with and increased rider purse which have been confirmed on the supplementry regulations for this years championship that can be found
HERE Rider entry in both the SX1 and SX2 classes are a minimum of $50 lower than the remaining rounds, while the junior entry price has been halfed as Bannan and his team try their best to encourage the future stars of the sport to get their feet wet in Supercross racing.
