Series Schedule Update

A big thank you to the riders, spectators and GrassrootsMX staff that came out this weekend to Zhoda MX for Round 3 of the Brandon Chrysler Dodge Dealership Series - it sure was a hot one! Hopefully everyone is recovering and hydrating today.

A quick note on our series schedule, this upcoming weekend at Roughwoods Raceway has been cancelled. The next official event will be August 28th + 29th for Round 4 at Grunthal MX, stay tuned for more details.

Series Update

To our motocross community:

Since last Wednesday we have been trying to piece together a revised set of protocols that would allow us to continue racing under the present health order, but we have come across two major stumbling blocks. One part of the public health order restricts any outdoor activity on private or public property to 150 people. We were presented with an opportunity to create separate “pods” in the pits to separate people into these pods, which our Pilot Mound promoter, Kyle McCannell was prepared to organize.

The line in the sand came when we were informed that people entering the facility must provide proof of vaccination if there are more than 150 people on the property, and this is something we are not prepared to do. So, until the public health order changes both in terms of the number of people allowed to an outdoor gathering without having to provide proof of vaccination we are at a stalemate.

Prairie Hill MX is going to run an open practice on Saturday and Sunday-details TBA soon. We will look to re-schedule Pilot Mound to another date. In the meantime, we have attached a link to help you find the MLA in your area. Please reach out to let them know that these orders are unreasonable. We will do our best to work with the health authorities in the coming weeks to get back to racing as soon as it is possible.

Sincerely,

204GMoto

That's a wrap for 2020!

As many of you are already aware, Grassroots 204, along with Brett Konkin at Transcanada Moto Park, made the decision late last week to cancel the last race of the season in Brandon due to the Provincial Government increasing their restrictions in the region due to a spike in COVID cases.  We all felt it was in our best interest of both the safety of our members and our reputation as a sport.  We had planned to present our year end championship trophies at the conclusion of the race in Brandon as COVID would not allow us to have a year end awards banquet this fall.  

Further to this, we made the decision last night to make Grunthal our last race of the 2020 season.  We believe that with the spike in COVID in our province we aren't willing to risk one more weekend of racing as we believe there is much more to lose than there is to gain in the end.  We have, along with each promoter, established strong working relationships with the regional health authorities and we want to ensure this relationship remains intact come spring 2021.  At this point we feel that this decision reflects our long term vision for a strong start to the 2021 motocross season.

Grassroots 204 would like to thank the promoters for their excellent work this past season, both on and off the track as we navigated our way through this pandemic.  Each track and their staff delivered an excellent weekend of racing, and our combined communication was seamless.  

We have many more people to thank, including our staff behind the scenes and of course our advertising partners as well.  For now we wanted to get this information out  to all of you so that you can go about making plans as a family for what is left of this glorious summer.  Finally and most importantly, we would like to thank all of you for your support this season. We know that we introduced a great deal of change, and naturally there was some initial skepticism with our plans.  And COVID did not help!  So we want to thank all of you for giving us an opportunity to execute our vision for what we believe motocross can look like in Manitoba.  And thanks for cooperating with our COVID protocols as this allowed us to go racing.  In the end, we feel like we all kind of stole this summer of racing, and we did what practically no one else did in the country.  We went racing!  And we had a tremendous turn out and steady growth in many classes throughout the summer.  It was worth every bit of stress and struggle.

Stay tuned for more news in the coming days.

Cheers,

204GMoto