We don’t get any sponsorship from a energy drinks company despite our best efforts. They must not like our DQ policy. (We haven’t approached one due to our position on abusive conduct 😉 )
We have not had to DQ a rider yet for littering, the very clear race brief coupled with a opportunity to pick it up has dealt with known instances. Do we worry about a rider bad mouthing our series over a littering DQ? Not really, having to do a litter pick on a 5km course is a far worse position to be in.
We have DQ’ed someone for abusive conduct on the course he threatened us with “spreading the word” we asked him to do so as we want people to know that that type of conduct was not tolerated in our series. A bit of humble pie would have seen him welcomed back (we all can make mistakes).