Discussion on motocross opportunities in Brazil

Had Colton off for this year, made a big push at him. Yamaha have of course, taken it very, very seriously for a long time. Honda have recently stepped up their program to compete with Yamaha. KTM now want to do the same. They have Aranda in the Arena Cross Supercross series that they have. He's of course capable. But there's money to be made in Brazil if you are a top 10 rider in either MXGP or America. What's weird is this has happened before. So Brazil, there was a peak in the late 90s where there was really good money. Rodney Smith and a couple guys went down there and did very well for themselves for a couple years. And then same thing before the. Like into the transition, the economic crash here in the US like 070809, there was really good money to be made in Brazil. Like go down, win a pro title down there, make over 100k bonus. I would argue right now that there is more money to be made in Brazil than maybe some of the championships that people. Regional champ or. Sorry, when I say regional, like nation championships that pop into people's minds, say like Australia, say the Canadian championship, like French championship, a few things like that. I would argue there's more money in Brazil than those. Would you agree? Yeah, for sure. It's just perhaps a little hidden. It's not visible to the naked eye. Like early 2010s. I know that Yamaha were offering riders 350-US$400,000 as a base salary just to do the outdoor series, which is I think eight rounds maybe. So, like, yeah, there's a good pay packet there. It's obviously just a little bit of a commitment from the rider's side. And also, of course, the prestige of either MXGP and SMX will always trumple. Yeah, well, one thing to point out there, I mean, you've nailed the head. Because I still see comments on social media or even our forum sometimes of people confused. Well, if this team were to offer Enzo Lope something when he come back, like, no, I don't think people understand how well Enzo's doing for himself down there. You know, hey, do I. He's. He grinded for years to try to make it work here. He's kind of finally gone to the point of wanting to be home, wanting to be with family and hey, you can make a couple hundred grand down there. Or do you want to come up here because a pretty good team is willing to take a chance on you and basically pay you no salary bonuses. He's kind of done enough. That's that's one of the primary reasons this conversation we're having right now is why you don't see somebody like Lopes. Exactly. Really wanting to be back here.