We may think that our sport is the greatest thing in the world, but the truth is that there's simply more appeal - and a larger audience - when it comes to guys racing around on motorbikes inside of a stadium and passing each other over seventy-foot triple jumps. The point is that a top World Cup downhiller might be making somewhere in the region of $28,500 USD per event, a number that might get a sticker on the shroud of Roczen's Suzuki race bike, which goes to show the vast wage gap between these two-wheeled sports. There are going to be a load of comments below that are explaining how and why there's so much more money in Supercross, not to mention those who will be pointing out my vastly oversimplified math, but the details and math aren't the points here. If there are seventeen Supercross events per season, it means that Roczen will take home $176,470 USD per race from just Suzuki, a number that doesn't include bonuses or other sponsorship arrangements. Those figures aren't out of the norm for a top SX racer, either, as any consistent podium contender will likely have similar numbers on their contracts, and that's not taking into account clothing and gear sponsorships, let alone energy drinks money that might cover a new Lamborghini or two every year. At the other end of the dirt-focused two-wheeled scale is Ken Roczen, the German-born Supercross talent who races for RCH Suzuki and is said to be getting paid around $3,000,000 USD per year as a base salary, as well as taking home a rumored $100,000 bonus for every Supercross main event win that he can tick off.
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