Update May 2: So the Steve Matthes/PulpMX Yamaha LCQ Challenge for privateers has been postponed until this Friday, May 6. The race was supposed to take place Friday afternoon in Denver but 50 mph winds led to the cancellation of all Friday practice and the race in the Mile High City.

So now the race will take place Friday afternoon in Salt Lake City. Time TBA once Feld puts a schedule together.

This is a race paying out a HUGE purse to privateers. The money is raised via a raffle to win a new Yamaha and all of the proceeds create a purse for the race. 

There's still time to enter the raffle and bring the privater funds up even higher. There's a chance the purse reaches 100k by Friday!

This week instead of profiling one rider for Privateer Profile we decided to give you the lowdown on the Yamaha LCQ Challenge Race, Presented by Blowfish for Hangovers. Being a privateer in this sport can be grueling. Riders must find the time to train off the bike, and on the bike, just like the factory riders do. However, many of them also must be their own agent, social media manager, travel agent, race transporter, and sometimes, their own mechanic, all on a limited budget. Traveling across the country multiple times during a season does not come cheap.

For the past three years Steve Matthes of PulpMX has raised money via a raffle (with the top prize being a brand-new Yamaha YZ450F) and distributed all the proceeds to the privateers. This year Feld Entertainment agreed to let the privateers compete for the prize money in their own race this Friday, April 29, the day before the Denver Supercross. Here is everything you need to know about the Yamaha LCQ Challenge.