http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=12542

More posturing from American Honda mouthpiece Henny Ray Abrams.

well well, look who's back

Miss me?

terribly. where ya been?

and then there were 9...

Posturing? How is it posturing? DMG's mouthpeice(s) have changed thier minds and retracted statements half a dozen times in the past month. All the while they still don't have a clue what their rules package will be, other than it will be radically different from this year. There isn't enough time for the manufacturers to properly prepare a program for next year, unless they are going to be running in a class that is similar to what they run now. If I were in charge of any of the factory teams, if the rules changes go through, whether i liked it or not, I would sit out 2009 merely for the fact of not enough preperation time.

Not that DMG would care. Under the old ways even if the manufactures where the power brokers, everyone sill needed everybody for the system to work. It's a little like those little fish that latch onto sharks. They are relatively safe and they have something to do. Once the manufactures sit out probably several hundered people across the nation will lose their jobs, shops or the associated wages they would earn supporting race teams. Again, not that DMG would care.

It's a little like those little fish that latch onto sharks

roadracingfan - 30 June 2008 09:20 AM

Posturing? How is it posturing? ... There isn't enough time for the manufacturers to properly prepare a program for next year, unless they are going to be running in a class that is similar to what they run now...

but there's time for them to organize their own series? looks like posturing to me too.

roadracingfan - 30 June 2008 09:20 AM

Posturing? How is it posturing?

It's posturing because Abrams is a paid PR consultant to American Honda, a fact that he conveniently fails to disclose in his supposedly "objective" coverage of the company's racing program. Abrams is a tool in Honda's cynical, Machiavellian effort to (again) manipulate the rules-making process.

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32013
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32021
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32028
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32030

wildman - 30 June 2008 10:55 AM

roadracingfan - 30 June 2008 09:20 AM

Posturing? How is it posturing?

It's posturing because Abrams is a paid PR consultant to American Honda, a fact that he conveniently fails to disclose in his supposedly "objective" coverage of the company's racing program. Abrams is a tool in Honda's cynical, Machiavellian effort to (again) manipulate the rules-making process.

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32013
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32021
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32028
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=32030

Thanks for the links. I couldn't remember where I had heard the phrase "Abrams is a paid PR consultant to American Honda" before. Now I remember.