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Old 12-06-2011, 12:20 PM
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janderson78
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Default From a Distributors Point of view!!!

YES!!!! THERE ARE TOOOOOO MANY SPONSORED DRIVERS!

Part of this is the fault of some MFGs. Some of them use Regional Team to boost their sales. What is happening when they do this is they are increasing their margin by selling direct because direct they sell less than the retailer but more than wholesale. The only thing this does is hurt the retailer.

The other part is just the market. Almost everyone thinks they are fast enough and deserve it. I am from socal and started racing at Ranch Pit Shop, M&M (First Location) and some others. Back then you only had like 6 guys in socal sponsored. The big one then was Kinwald, Losi and a few others.

At Ascendancy Racing we have done the best we can to limit our sponsored drivers and push them to our retailers. We have one SWorkz Factory Driver in Taylor James and have picked up Regional Team drivers in targeted areas as we do need to market our products.

But bottom line is we are always willing to take a resume. In doing so we are always willing to take feedback from tracks and racers we sponsor. Perfect example is three weeks ago we considered a resume. In doing our follow up in that area we were given a lot of feedback and we dicided not to work with this driver.

But yes I do believe that the huge amount of sponsored drivers have hurt the hobby as a whole.
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