At least they offer contingency but I think it is pretty WEAK to have a lower payout schedule for MY2012 bikes than 2013. What's the deal with the 125% payout thing also?
In our OMRA series: KTM pays $250 to the winner for the season in each series, with NO per race payout. Husky pays $150 per event to the winner (10-13 events in each series available), plus a series end bonus for the AA class. $150x13 = $1950 Yamaha-zip Honda-zip Kawasaki-zip TM-zip GasGas-zip It is a marketing program and they are welcome to slice it however makes sense to them. It's working for us, we collected $750 last year after switching bikes mid-season to a 2011 TXC511. With any luck we will break the $2000 barrier this year on our 2013 TXC310R by riding in both series. OMRA had two class winners on Huskys this year, none the year before. Those winners switched from a Yamaha and a KTM and both collected substantial payouts in HuskyBucks. Both will be back on 2013 bikes this year. If the objective is to get successful racers to ride Husky's I would say it is working pretty well so far. Since my 2011 bikes are still viable I would love it if they included them, but I can certainly see their logic is encouraging use of new models.
Husky has the best program hands down and the people that run it are outstanding. And they do it in house, so you don't have to pay to get money (XTRM). :P I got $350 last year and I was in a lower-paying class and my class didn't make enough riders half the time to win. I bought myself some supplies for a bike rebuild. Go Husky!
+1 on the outstanding support. Jenna at Husky does an outstanding job managing the program and encouraging rider's efforts.
I'll be signing up just in case everybody else falls down Not a high payout in my old fat man class but WTH, money is good......
12 bikes get what they always got.....13 gets a 25% bonus.......dont think of 12 as less ....think 25% more for a 13
