EP11 - Hans Becking - "The Traka's New Era, Race Safety & The 300km Elite Shift"

So let's go now on more on the business of gravel and the future of the gravel series.

Because it's also a big topic.

There are rumors floating around regarding price money for the 2027 Troca classification.

For elite riders, we're building commercial strategy across both European and US series.

It's really important because it's a direct financial ROI from the races, the results you are doing.

So it's becoming a huge factor also because you have bonuses and so on and on the partnership side.

So can you confirm if this price money is happening or you are still working on it? Maybe it's not, it's just a rumor and nothing will happen.

If you check the regulations,

there is already on the tracker regulation, there is a sign that there will be financial prices or there will be price money.

I cannot confirm everything 100%, but I know what we're working towards and we are very close and I think every pro athlete is going to be very happy.

But at the moment, I cannot

confirm and our idea

The vision of GRI is to have like around 5-6 events where we have a really good live stream that sponsors are happy, that people can watch at home, that people are seeing the race worldwide.

And also that there is just a nice amount of prize money.

So it's also for the elites, it's going to be worth it to go all of them.

like I said, the big bag of money and make everybody happy is also, it takes some time.

So what we, it's our goal and we understand that, um, also me as a priority, if I would have won last weekend, I get the trophy, which is very nice.

And then it would be nice to also have something financial, but it's, it's, uh, yeah, it's something also that if the sport is growing, we have to grow with it.

And that's also the responsibility that we, we got on and on.

We are, we're trying to manage it in a, in a, in a suitable way.

about this if the price money is confirmed the price money is confirmed but the amount we don't know and the the structure of the price money we will we will know soon um if i understand correctly so it's for the tracker but is this financial reward structure will be extended maybe to other individual races of the gravel series maybe the general classification also the overall of the of the series because yeah the lifetime is doing great on this and they attract focus of top riders because you have also this series which is rewarding at the end i think Other European series need to compete on this topic because we have leverage also in Europe to have great race and great general classification with riders doing all the races, not only the ones which are the most renowned.

So yeah, is there something in the pipe about this?

Yeah, it's like we said, the Gravel Earth series, at the moment we are evaluating it and we are thinking we have to decide what's going to happen there in the future.

And also there we are trying to finalize it.

So there's a lot of things,