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 Posted: 20:09 - 05 Jun 2014  Post subject: TT Prize money |
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Surely this can't be all the winners get for winning each TT race can it?!?
Footballers are earning that as a goal bonus ffs! |
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Posted: 22:40 - 05 Jun 2014  Post subject: |
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| Hetzer wrote: | Classic, innit. A bunch of whiney faggots are paid millions while warriors with balls of steel get peanuts. I wonder if it has anything to do with the majority of the population consisting of whiney faggot cretins. |
Probably more to do with the TT being a minority interest event, within a minority interest pastime.
From a marketing point of view, the TT should be the classic 'race on Sunday, sell on Monday' proposition, but these days the manufacturers won't take the risk of being the headline sponsor, because they don't want to take the chance that somebody gets killed on a full factory bike, in a race that at best doesn't mean much, at worst is highly controversial.
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| Posted: 22:56 - 05 Jun 2014 Post subject: |
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If you do well and win a couple of races it's still a normal persons annual salary for a couple of hours fun riding bikes.
I don't think football players get paid for playing for England in international matches at all.
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| Posted: 23:10 - 05 Jun 2014 Post subject: |
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Yeah an agreement is in place that the appearance fees go to charity so it is basically unpaid charity work.
Although I expect they still benefit massively from personal sponsorship and what not out of it.
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| Posted: 23:40 - 05 Jun 2014 Post subject: |
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I have no interest in it other then watching a short youtube montage.
I've watched some road racing live in New Zealand if that helps.
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| Posted: 23:51 - 05 Jun 2014 Post subject: |
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I don't really have a strong opinion, it's a chat forum, I'm chatting.
What do you think the prize money should be then?
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| Al wrote: | I didn't say it was easy to me but if you're riding for one of the top teams you'd expect they'd be half good.
If you have no chance of winning then you're probably just competing for the experience and wouldn't expect to earn any money.
It is probably an expensive event to organize that doesn't have a massive following, hence the prize money isn't very much. I suppose you could subsidise it but why? |
About 50 THOUSAND people GO to the Island for the TT each year. something like of 80% of the islands entire years tourism revenue is generated in those two weeks.
But the TT is barely about the racing; it's a fourteen day bike-fest.
There's only actually 6 races, and they aren't strictly 'races' they are time-trials, competitors starting at intervals and racing against the clock, not each other.
The roads closed for about two and a half hours per 'session'; so if ALL you went for was the racing? You would probably be rather underwhelmed.
Its about the celebration of biking going on around the racing.
There's the Ramsey Sprint, 'run what you brung'; the Laxey Trial, The Douglas Beach-Race; A TT Moto-Cross. Then there are the meets and shows; the classic parade, club runs; exhibitions; talks, presentations and other 'ents' including the Bands at Busheys.... and that's just the stuff that's in the program! (About 18 pages of 'what's on'!) Out and about; various riders groups anex corners of camp-sites or pub-car-parks.
You can easily spend the entire TT fortnight revelling in the 'atmosphere'; looking at all the bikes, talking to all the bikes, and completely MISS the racing!
THAT is what makes THE Tee-Tee.
You HAVE to experience it to understand it. If all you know of it is the race reports and the death toll? You honestly cannot know what its REALLY about.
And the prize money isn't huge, 'cos it doesn't have to be.
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The vast majority of competitors at the TT pay for the privelige of racing there!
I'd hazard a guess thay'd pay more, than they already do, to carry on racing there!
I know, in the grasping, money driven society we live in, that's it goes, totally, against the grain to even imagine someone doing something for the sheer love of it.
Fortunately there are still a few who do and the world's a better place for it!
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