mtwracin - 06 July 2009 04:43 PM

follow up...
http://www.onthethrottle.com/content/view/228/1/

Mat is the only rider in the DMG/AMA with the stones to speak up. Blake got into it after Mat broke the ice, but Yates is too worried about his paycheck and his waning career to say anything.

Can/would/will all of the teams/riders go on strike or abstain from racing until the rules are changed in the series?

djdirty - 06 July 2009 05:54 PM

Can/would/will all of the teams/riders go on strike or abstain from racing until the rules are changed in the series?

I would hope so, but there's always gonna be some back of the packers who will ride 'cuz it's their only hope of a good placing/win. There aren't enough true professionals in that series to make a riders union work.

There's bound to be some youtube footage of this: http://www.cyclenews.com/articles/road-racing/2009/07/06/pace-car-debacle-the-official-explanation

It goes back to the punishment bs - in the rules, if a rider tries to lead a boycott, etc., he is subject to disciplinary action. You can decide not to race, but you are expected to keep that to yourself.

It's amazing that things have come to this in AMA racing. The officials no longer listen to the rider at all, from what I can gather. They dictate, and the riders deal with it. Like Mladin says, they will try to change it when someone dies - and probably only because of the liability.

more follow up for non websurfers
http://www.onthethrottle.com/content/view/229/1/

Just watched the Kevin Schwantz vid. The guy is fuming :D It's irritating that we as Americans are going to be stuck with DMG as the representation of US Road Racing. It's despicable. Colin Frasier gets up in front of the mic and dances around the issues with empty platitudes "we need to make improvements", "rider safety something something". Those are just words to him, a hackneyed script from a bunch of mouth breathing yokels. IF they were to actually improve something....the series would still be awful. It pains me that the best (formerly) upline that young racers had to the world stage is nothing more than a season long episode of Hee-Haw, replete with awful (yet unintentional) punchlines.

To top it off, the two "biggest" races of the year in terms of exposure, they greased up a football and went horny monkey on it. You know that the FIM guys were making calls to somebody for support class status for next years GP. No way in Hell do they want the GP circus (catchy moniker) to be associated with the DMG circus (full of carnies, bad hair, stupid pace cars...).

I am still pissed at the stupidity shown by the AMA for selling to these idiots and the awfull way they have run the "Superbike" series. I have not gone to any races and will not while this continues. I am going to the Indy MotoGP and thank God that the AMA joke will not be there.

I had actually contemplated going to the NJMP round, but I can't see supporting this series. At this point a failure of the series and starting over is sounding better and better...

I would guess that the flagging stations are way off the track, and most riders are just focused on the track and not some corner works probably 50' at minimum off to the side.

I've only watched 1/2 of the 600 race so far, but I'm curious to see how the Superbike incident comes across on TV