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The honeymoon is over? Did it ever start?
The honeymoon is over? Did it ever start?
With the Good Ship AMA Proracing having sunk completely out of sight,
CN's HR Abrams is looking around for a new target (showing that at least
some people, no matter how fixated and obsessed, can move on), and it
seems he may be turning his guns on the new NASBike bosses, the DMG. In
the new CN he editorializes on a few aspects of this change, and here
are some snippets:
"With the best of intentions, the Daytona Motorsports Group will change
the face of the AMA Superbike Championship. They'll dumb down the
technical regulations, dictate an open-source policy for parts, and
mandate control tires. They'll make the racing closer, more accessible,
more entertaining, and safer. But safety is an issue on which they lack
credibility, for one very simple reason: Daytona International Speeedway
is the most dangerous racetrack on the AMA calendar... Daytona
International Sppedway is the most dangerous track on the Americana
calendar by a margin that isn't measurable. Every track has a corner or
two or three that is problematic; Daytona is little but danger.... There
is no way to make the current layout safe. And it could get worse."
He also goes into the mistake that spec tires would be, and that Rog Ed
is simply wrong about his notion of problems currently in that area. He
discusses the possibilities of a 600cc premier class, partly driven by
the use of DIS, and the problems with that. But in the end it comes down
to one grim fact: We are now and forever more stuck with Daytona, and
that has the potential in the future to define this series and this
country's racing, as if GP had perpetually refused to ever leave the
Isle of Man.
Hey, at least it's not gonna be boring this year...
With the Good Ship AMA Proracing having sunk completely out of sight,
CN's HR Abrams is looking around for a new target (showing that at least
some people, no matter how fixated and obsessed, can move on), and it
seems he may be turning his guns on the new NASBike bosses, the DMG. In
the new CN he editorializes on a few aspects of this change, and here
are some snippets:
"With the best of intentions, the Daytona Motorsports Group will change
the face of the AMA Superbike Championship. They'll dumb down the
technical regulations, dictate an open-source policy for parts, and
mandate control tires. They'll make the racing closer, more accessible,
more entertaining, and safer. But safety is an issue on which they lack
credibility, for one very simple reason: Daytona International Speeedway
is the most dangerous racetrack on the AMA calendar... Daytona
International Sppedway is the most dangerous track on the Americana
calendar by a margin that isn't measurable. Every track has a corner or
two or three that is problematic; Daytona is little but danger.... There
is no way to make the current layout safe. And it could get worse."
He also goes into the mistake that spec tires would be, and that Rog Ed
is simply wrong about his notion of problems currently in that area. He
discusses the possibilities of a 600cc premier class, partly driven by
the use of DIS, and the problems with that. But in the end it comes down
to one grim fact: We are now and forever more stuck with Daytona, and
that has the potential in the future to define this series and this
country's racing, as if GP had perpetually refused to ever leave the
Isle of Man.
Hey, at least it's not gonna be boring this year...
Re: The honeymoon is over? Did it ever start?
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:32:33 -0700, Mark N
<menusbaum@NYETSPAMearthlink . net > wrote:
>With the Good Ship AMA Proracing having sunk completely out of sight,
>CN's HR Abrams is looking around for a new target (showing that at least
>some people, no matter how fixated and obsessed, can move on)
Damn, my irony meter seems to have blown up.
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:32:33 -0700, Mark N
<menusbaum@NYETSPAMearthlink . net > wrote:
>With the Good Ship AMA Proracing having sunk completely out of sight,
>CN's HR Abrams is looking around for a new target (showing that at least
>some people, no matter how fixated and obsessed, can move on)
Damn, my irony meter seems to have blown up.
--
Champ
neal at champ dot org dot uk
