Posted by T3 on September 5, 2008, 6:59 pm
Mat's toast and congrats to Spies for winning the title..
http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID 914
Evidently Suzuki wasn't able to find any production bikes with similar
cranks and I wonder why...
Posted by Dave on September 5, 2008, 8:51 pm
>Mat's toast and congrats to Spies for winning the title..
>http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID 914
All the bullshit aside, I've never had any issue with Mat's DQ if his
crank really was non-compliant. My complaint from day one was the
idiotic decision to tear down only Mat's and not Ben's (or Tommy's).
I mean, how stupid can you get when you say "they're all from the same
team so we'll only tear down one of them"? Considering the points
battle, which they obviously didn't, it was a monumentally stupid
move.
Posted by T3 on September 6, 2008, 12:13 am
>
>> Mat's toast and congrats to Spies for winning the title..
>>
>> http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID 914
>>
>
> All the bullshit aside, I've never had any issue with Mat's DQ if his
> crank really was non-compliant. My complaint from day one was the
> idiotic decision to tear down only Mat's and not Ben's (or Tommy's).
> I mean, how stupid can you get when you say "they're all from the same
> team so we'll only tear down one of them"? Considering the points
> battle, which they obviously didn't, it was a monumentally stupid
> move.
I wouldn't go as far as monumentally stupid, though for sure an
opportunity was lost. What deals like this do is to make crew chief's
introspective
Posted by Julian Bond on September 6, 2008, 2:42 am
>Apparently, and like I said earlier, finding a production bike with
>that particular crank in it was the appeal killer, because without it,
>or the promise of producing one damn quick all the paper records in the
>world don't matter.
>As far as the "slammed the door for good" goes, in most ALL racing
>series you must be ready and willing to prove yourself innocent, not so
>much be proven guilty and in a homologated series such as AMA SB they
>tend to go with what you can prove you sell when there's
>"disagreements" and in this case evidently Suzuki couldn't find
>one...(because none ever existed to begin with..)
Except that:-
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article4046
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Posted by Julian Bond on September 6, 2008, 12:04 pm
>http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID 868
>ÒHe needs to provide to us production records for these crankshafts,
>vendor information, and the VIN range of the motorcycles that they went
>in. ThatÕs part A,Ó Syfan said. ÒPart B is they have to provide a
>motorcycle in that VIN range, whether itÕs new or used, and have it
>disassembled with an AMA official there."
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article4046
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On Saturday, August 30th, AMA Special Projects Manager Bill Syfan
informed Don Sakakura of Yoshimura Racing that they must produce
supporting documentation and crankshaft production records and
information by 5:00 p.m. (EST) today. The written submission, along with
an opinion from an independent crankshaft expert, was faxed to the AMA
shortly before 5:00 p.m. (ET) this afternoon. In addition, early this
morning Yoshimura Racing and American Suzuki Motor Corporation delivered
to the AMA offices in Ohio an exemplar crankshaft for inspection and
comparison.
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So if Suzuki did what the AMA asked, why was it dismissed out of hand?
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Shortly after 5:00 p.m. (ET) today, less than half an hour after the
written submission was timely sent to the appropriate AMA officials, Don
Sakakura and Mat Mladin were notified by phone by Bill Syfan that an
appeal board would not be convened.
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Looking from the outside, it looks like whatever was delivered wasn't
what the AMA were looking for. Or they were never even going to look at
it. Or maybe they're fax machine is in the basement and the fax didn't
hit anyone's desk till after the deadline. Or...
Let's hope Suzuki tell their side of the story about what really
happened.
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