On The Pegs August - 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 8 | Page 76

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much selection in venues for what we do. I already do an event in Amarillo, Texas.
I know that sounds nuts, but that is a huge motorsport community. It’s got a phe-
nomenal facility. When I threw that out to KTM, they were like, “Yeah, West Texas.
Not bad.” I even do a show in Hobbs, New Mexico. It’s not a big town, but you don’t
realize this - in southeastern Mexico there’s over a quarter-million people there.
It’s a sleepy town but I do two shows there already, and it’s good. But asking the
manufacturer, I thought, ‘Do you mind if I’m either in Chicago or I’m just in a neat
building in Hobbs, New Mexico?’ If I get on TV, it doesn’t matter. They just want to
go win a race and they want to look good on TV. Maybe [we’ll be] going back to Las
Vegas. [We’re] trying to have a Southern California round so I can get out in front of
all the manufacturers and show them what this [new series] is about.
Is it too expensive to go back east, or is there just no market there?
It’s interesting. I do Albany, New York. It’s called the Times Union Center for aren-
across. I pack it. I pack that place. The riders there, I get over 600 entries. It’s crazy.
And you’ve got J-Day up there, and you got a lot of racing. So my thought was to
try one up there. The problem you have is that in the summer you’ve got J-Day,
you’ve got GNCC, you’ve got a national - You’ve got a lot of races up that way that
compete for the riders. I don’t think a lot of the EnduroCross series’ west coast guys
want to travel that far. So there’ll be some looking at that to see what we can do.
Maybe it’ll be a one-off event. I don’t know.
Are you going to have a live feed?
We’re trying to figure it out. We know this year unless something happens, and it