Behind the Scenes of Supercross

From pyro booms you can feel in the stands to the cinematic opening ceremonies that set the tone for the night, Kat Voiles is part of the team responsible for turning Monster Energy SMX World Championship / Supercross race weekends into a full-scale live experience.

In this episode, host Heather Wilson Schiltz chats with Kat about her eight-season journey with Feld Entertainment — from coordinating interviews in media operations to overseeing what fans watch and hear inside the stadium. Kat shares what goes into pre-season content capture, how storylines evolve week to week, why the touring schedule demands constant adaptability, and what it’s like calling the show in her headset.

🎧 What You’ll Hear:
• What a Senior Live Event Manager oversees on race weekend
• How pre-season media sessions capture hours of athlete content that fuels storytelling across all 31 SMX rounds
• The behind-the-scenes work that brings opening ceremonies to life, including video, timing and pyro
• Touring series realities: how planning for upcoming rounds happens while you’re still executing the current one
• How stadium tech changes from venue to venue
• Weather contingency planning: building Plan B, C, and D and making real-time calls when conditions aren’t safe
• Why Kat thrives in show control, what “a good day” sounds like in her headset, and how she’s learned to roll with chaos

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“We fly in. We have to set up our press conference and work directly with the stadium for all things fan experience. So, every graphic that you see on the LED boards, the ribbons, the big screens, getting our logos and the placements in the right place. All of the commercials, Lurch and Haley doing interviews, the whole entire Race Day live show. So getting all of the pieces into place so that when the fans do walk in on Saturday morning for Fan Fest and for the live event, everything’s already ready to go.”

-Kat Voiles, Feld Entertainment Sr. Live Event Manager