As momentum continues to build around the Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross Championship in 2025, so too does the importance of its commercial strengths. With ProMX forming the other major component of the domestic calendar, this Input feature explores the strengths of racing – as well as the importance of winning – indoors at this time of the year.

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Craig Dack (Monster Energy CDR Yamaha):
From my point of view, I don’t put one on top of the other. Whenever I go to a race or a series, I’m there to try and win or put our best foot forward. From time to time, we don’t have the best supercross team as far as the athletes go – just because of circumstances – whatever that might be. But we still go there to win. And the same for motocross, we go there to win. So for me, I put the same emphasis on both. The motocross season runs for a longer period of time throughout the year, so we seem to saturate and get a bit more media time, because it sort of sinks into the system over several months instead of just a couple of months. However, both series are just as important for me and our partners.

Yarrive Konsky (Honda Racing):
I think everyone will be the same on this table, that both championships are really important. It’s integral for any team to win any championship they can from a commercial point of view, so the emphasis on winning is there. The good thing about AME with supercross is the broadcasting. And not only that, supercross provides opportunities for us with our partners to put them in corporate suites, to entertain them differently than what we would do out there in motocross. The crowd – to be real – will have more people here on Saturday than probably the entire motocross championship combined, so it’s very important that we’re successful in supercross in front of the audience that they’re able to attract. When we turn up to Marvel Stadium in front of 35-40,000 people, we don’t see that in four years of motocross combined, so there is a real emphasis on being successful across both series for different reasons.

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Kyle Blunden (KTM Racing Team):
This year KTM has actively gone and looked for outside industry partners. And interestingly, a lot of it depends on the partners, what their goals are, and what they want to achieve, but sort of as they said, with any racing, you want to go and win. So I don’t think there’s really a more important one or anything like that – you go racing to win.

Brad McAlpine (Penrite Racing Empire Kawasaki):
I agree with everyone at the table. I’d really love to win both championships for our partners, the team. It’s been a minute, and I don’t know how many more years I’ve got left in me [laughs].