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30 RIDERS IN SUPERBIKE?

Wow, what happened from Daytona to Fontana. they institute a 120% rule or something?

Any way congrats to Mladin, Ebos, Miguel, Jake.

Now what is up with Ben Bostrom? I missed the race on TV so did he DNF the first race? Lousy start to a season for him. Race 2 is the first points he's got so far.

 

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I am withholding comment on the quality of the AMA superbike right now, I personally hope that the hondas, and Ducati get up to speed (not top speed) with Mladin and the factory Suzuki.

I do think that the 4 series don't offer much in excitement or variety right now. I would love to see some buells, or 750 ducs in the FX class, but it takes an effin amount of money to participate, much less compete in a pro level national series. So the riders look at the out of the box formula that gets them somewhat competitive with minimal investment in R&D and hand made parts.

I think that Superstock, and supersport, with an FX style bring your franken-cycle balls out modified bike would eliminate some cross over.

The factory teams would still dominate in each class, but it should tighten the competition some.

As for tires, the manufacturers should bring their supply of tires to the events and hand the keys to the trailers to the AMA race director so that all racers get access to the same tires, at the same cost as the factory teams.

 

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This might be futile but....

Some of the most competative racing I've ever seen was stock classes with minimal mods. Aprilia 250 cup, HD 883's etc.

even the supersport stuff is pretty close by the end of the year.

Sure I'd like to see Duc's L2, a Triumph, and some derivative of a HD bike racing against theI4's, but it is almost impossible to get the rules to alow for a broad mix of engine designs. Weight penalties for each cylinder? Displacement limits? How artificial (i.e. imposed limits to even out competition) do you make the racing just to get multiple engine configurations?

 

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Re: This might be futile but....

Yes GP have wieght penalties based on number of cylinders and is going to introduce a seperate penalty structure for oval pistoned motors also. It basically has not lead to a huge vareity of motor designs, albeit more than AMA has goin.

Supertwins would be neat, but HD is not going to participate, and it still leaves Triumph staring thru the glass at the racing buffet.

Its a conundrum, but I think the AMA needs to add weight penalties to get more competition from more manufacturers (and make it more fun to bench race "mladin would have kicked ass if he could drop that 20lbs weight penalty")

I don't remember which car racing series that had to keep adding weight to the rx7 based cars just to get the competition even.

I'd just like to have multiple manufactures/engine designs to root for.

 

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Elitist fraternity pig dog

I believe from "back to school by Mr Dangerfeild

 

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Re: Do I smell NASCAR??

Its a shame but I think the AMA needs to do something to get a mix going. Weight penalties would help but would always be a sore point for the racers. Man, the b!tching after races would be great for this site.

 

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Slimfast as the sponsor

The Sean/carbon buell would still be 100lbs more than the Duhamel/Honda bike total weight ;-)