Good luck..

 

http://superbikeplanet.com/2008/Sep/080910ussb.htm
http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article4127

 



From the outside looking in, I hope this wins and the DMG stuff falls
on its face.  The US is the world's biggest economy, biggest sports
bike market and has a great legacy of providing world championship
class riders.  To see that reduced to spec ECUs, engine restrictors,
power-to-weight ratio limits, etc, would be a real shame.
--
Champ

 

Champ wrote:

It's just a press release, but one has to be quite pleased with the
structure of the organization, from a separate sanctioning body to a
separate series promoter to a promoter's group to a riders' group.
They're trying to establish right away that it's going to be an
inclusive operation and not a dictatorship of any kind, which is what
any reasonable person would have liked to have seen when the AMA
decided to get out of racing.

If it all works out, really a great thing for professional racing, in
this country and overall. And I hope DMG succeeds at whatever it is
they're trying to do as well, because this country could use a real
national championship for club racing, and one where riders can
perhaps make some decent money and develop before they try racing at a
professional level. And it's not like I want to see Daytona gone from
racing, it just shouldn't be used in a top-level championship anymore,
especially if the specific needs of that track distort the rest of the
championship, as they have in the AMA.

Of course, it may be that we'll only see twins running there, as we
probably won't see any of the Japanese OEMs rushing to have their
bikes homologated. And Pirelli can rethink their bid on the tire job,
it's not like they have to worry about any bidding competition from
Dunlop now, or Michelin for that matter...

 



Not off to a roaring start, huh?
http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID 945

A soon as Kaw comes forward your *BIGTIME RACING* will be down to what,
5 SB's on the grid???

 

T3 wrote:

Hey, better than none, I say. Anyway, Yamaha was always the weak
sister, less committed to SB than any other OEM and quite willing to
race "on the cheap" in SS. And he sounds like a guy who just realized
he might have proposed to the wrong girl, not exactly a rousing
endorsement. We'll see how all this plays out over time, of course,
but I doubt that they would go forward with this without Kawi on
board, even if that was conditional. And their guy has been making a
lot of noise about racing SBs in '09 and against the other OEMs - he'd
look damned silly if they went the club route...