Craig Dack is yet to confirm CDR Yamaha’s Supercross participation. Image: Simon Makker/Makkreative.com.

CDR Yamaha owner Craig Dack has revealed to MotoOnline.com.au this afternoon that the team could sit out the 2013 Australian Supercross Championship season.

The iconic Victorian-based team is yet to make an official decision on its Supercross participation, citing the late arrival of Supercross series details and expenses related to the calendar as the reason for their current apprehension.

Dack has been a major critic of Supercross promoters’ delayed releasing of information in recent seasons, stating that the confirmation of a calendar mid-year (click here for information on the 2013 series) is simply not good enough for a professional motorsport series.

“We don’t have a plan as yet,” Dack told MotoOnline.com.au. “We only received the calendar, the Supp Regs and race schedule less than a month ago.

“Our budgets have been established since January last year and not in our wildest expectations did we expect to see a Supercross series come in where the cost of travel is just so dramatically high.

“It’s one of the most expensive series you could imagine with travel up to Darwin and a double-header at Phillip Island [during the MotoGP weekend] where the accommodation is very high. At the moment we are unsure where we sit with the whole thing.

“We’ve had official confirmation for the Supercross series less than three months before it’s going to start – it’s an issue I’ve been trying to get sorted for a few years now. I just don’t know how these people expect us to be able to drag X amount of money from thin air once our budgets are established.”

Winner of the past five Monster Energy MX Nationals MX1 Championships, Dack’s team places a high emphasis on the outdoors, which have been promoted by Williams Event Management for the past 17 seasons.

In comparison, Supercross has had multiple promoters – many unsuccessful – during that period including famed Nitro Circus Live promoter Global Action Sports from 2008-2011 before International Entertainment Group took charge in 2012. The CDR Yamaha team’s most recent Supercross title came with Jay Marmont in 2011.

“The MX Nationals is 20-fold [more important] than Supercross,” he added. “Supercross has been a basket case in this country for the past 10 years or so. The last guy who was successful at running Supercross and knew what he was doing in this country was Phil Christensen, who ran the Supercross Masters.

“Since then, we’ve had several different promoters come in claiming they’re going to change the world of Supercross, revamp the sport, and they come and go. It’s been a real thorn in our side. How can anybody expect a race team to budget and plan ahead with that short of notice? It’s just ludicrous.

“At least with Motocross we get fair warning with what’s coming up, a fair idea of where we are going to go each year and it’s been stable for a long time.

“Motocross has been the only thing we can hang our hats on and that’s why we’ve focused on it for the past several years because you just don’t know where you’re going with Supercross. It’s like a mystery bag – you don’t know what you’re going to get.”

CDR Yamaha currently has Lawson Bopping contracted for the entire 2013 season, while international Billy Mackenzie is on an outdoor-only deal. Plans to re-sign CDR’s 2012 runner-up Daniel McCoy evaporated when he departed an outdoor support deal late in the off-season to join Carlton Dry Honda.

Stay tuned next week for a complete interview with Dack regarding season 2013, next year’s YZ450F and the current state of domestic Motocross.