MXi & The ATV Super Tour
Televised ATV racing in 2006

Since our races earlier this year at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games there have been many questions about MXi’s plans going forward, and specifically about a televised National Race Series. In order to answer as many questions as we can, as well as begin the process of open communication, here is our update:

Under the brand of The ATV Sport Tour (AST), we will be running a televised 8-race, series in 2006. The events will be split between a Spring series (which will act as a qualifying series for the ’06 Great Outdoor Games) airing on ESPN, and a Fall series, leading to the awarding of the AST National Championship at the end of ’06, which will air on another network (details to be announced shortly).

The televised competition events will be both MX style racing and the Terracross™ utility discipline that we introduced at this year’s Great Outdoor Games. There will be both Pro and Amateur classes at each stop. Amateur classes will receive highlight coverage in the television shows, as well.

We are now in the process of securing dates and venues for the season. This process has been on hold until we could get a schedule of the 2006 MX Nationals from the ATVA, which we received this week. It is our intention to provide a complimentary series in dates and locations to the ATVA Nationals, and not compete with the ATVA series. The ESPN Great Outdoor Games will be making an announcement soon as to the dates and location of their 2006 event, and it is anticipated that this event will take place in May, 2006, but nothing official has been announced or released.

In addition, it is our firm intention to be “sanctioned” or “endorsed” by the AMA/ATVA, as our efforts have been in the past at the X Games with Supermoto and the ATV events at the Great Outdoor Games. We are believers in the AMA/ATVA and what it means to our sport. Discussions in the regard are underway.

We are firm believers in listening to you, our customers, and want to make this a fun and challenging series for all levels of racing. We will be announcing the dates, locations, purses and formats as soon as the details are complete, but we can unequivocally state that we have the airtime from ESPN and are committed and confirm that the AST will roll out in 2006 – and hopefully benefit everyone in the ATV community.

As always, questions and comments are more than welcome at any time.

Sincerely,

Tes Sewell
(tes@mediax.tv)

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