More news about AMA/DMG, from a local reporter at Mid-Ohio:

Rob McCurdy: AMA put big boys to shame | mansfieldnewsjournal.com | Mansfield News Journal

McCurdy makes some points but also touches on other issues that are at hand. The AMA has been and is one of the lamest organizations to run a moto event and MGD also looks to be missing the real spirit of what moto racing is.

SPEEDTV has done everything they could to destroy covereage so they can finally rid the airwaves or motoracing and be the 24/7 NASCAR channel or whatever. AMA Pro prime time was the lamest coverage ever and at least before I knew I could catch the races by the next tuesday. Right now I have no idea when to find them. Thank God for DVR.

The Mid-Ohio races were really good but I'm torn as Slick (Danny E.) is a personal friend of mine and I'm glad he's gotten a ride but HD and the buell just cracks me up. I love HD really but as Growler put it they anit performance. I thought about the 1125cc vs the 600cc the other day when I was beating up the 11 year old down the block.

The economy has not help the moto sceen either but the real reason the factory teams are gone is they drug up all in a tizzy becuase they dont get to call all the shots (except HD hehhe). I'm a huge supporter of the privateer but the factory teams did bring an A-game to an otherwise underfunded paddock. Yosh, Graves, & Jordan are doing what they can but the facotyr teams are traditionally some of the biggest snobs at the track. I loved it when every now and then a privateer would put the whoppin on them with their so called "stock bikes". SO I liked the idea of making the playing field more fair....not this fiar though!!!!

Anyone who has run a track day or got to deal with a race track knows what pirates they are. Maybe Barber is OK.... They have discovered that they can fund full on track upgrades from track days and hosting moto racing events but the fees they get are insane. Especially when you look at that compared to a car event. While we're talking pirates let's not forget promoters (are we back to MGD...uh DMG?) and thier nasty asses. We had a local dickhead get the rights to host an AMA Supermoto event in Norman, OK and I think he had to pay $20,000 for the rights to host it and never had any intention of hosting an event but rather selling the rights for $30,000 and he got no takers so there was never a supermoto event and now there will never be an AMA event because of the aweful taste left behind by that kind of action. Not to be out done a guy went on to have an AMA round of SMX in Austin, TX and not only did it not go down but the guy took thousdand in rider fees and sponsor money. Good luck getting that back.

Does anyone here remeber when it was engine configuration and displacement that classed up the bikes? There was a v-twin class and the inline-4. Oh for the days when it was 250, 600, 750, & 1000.

To say it's only the AMA or DMG is a little short sighted even though it's not hard to see how they have messed things up. To say it will always be this way is like saying global warming is going to kill us all. somehting aint right but it may not be the end.

Topeka

A NASCRAP sponsored track choice. They know NOTHING about motorcycle racing and it was obvious to me as there was only one racing line. The races I watched last night were boring as there wasn't any "slicing and dicing" that motorcycle racers and spectators want/need to see. A generally flat track (no camber to most of the turns) and though cars can manage up to 4 G's on flat turns, bikes cannot go more than 1 lateral G and that was evident by the nature of the crashes highlighted in the pre-race practice coverage. It looked like nearly any NASCRAP event with an imposed freight-train being marketed as entertainment. Weak Sauce.

I'm soooooo happy someone else started a thread about this! I've been so disappointed by AMA pro roadracing even before these clowns took over, so much so that if I were to "vent" about it my fingers would fall off from typing! I can't even watch the races anymore without falling asleep in front of the T.V. I'll stick to WSB and MotoGP. WHY can't they learn how to run a series from the Euro's? They really dropped the ball on the Super Moto series too! It's practically nonexistant now with only a handful of races.

Go to motorcycledaily.com and read why Mladin won't race at Topeka.

So I'm laying there in my drug induced euphoria (legal) all set to get caught up on the AMA stuff and the first thing they show is Miladin dropped out and is announcing retirement. It all went down hill from there. I watched about 10 minutes and just deleted the recording. I feel for the guys that are working hard to race. They are getting caught up up in all of this BS, never mind the fans. I sure miss the days when Jake and Miguel were coming in on the corner with both rear wheels off the ground battling for 3rd and 4th. Hopefully a little cyclical evolution will take place and this will recover. Sad. Wonder where Matt is going, too much talent there to sit idle.

Bet he wishes he'd gone with Ben to WSB. OR, gone instead of Ben!!!!

Once the flag drops, there are no politics. Once the race is checkered is when the chit hits the fan is who cheated, who jumped the start and did not time the green$.

The race is the race and the buck is the race in the background. The money it takes a racer to run this event are huge entry fees for a small purse.

If you want perspective, I made $75 bucks for 11th place at Daytona in the late 1990's. Now, 11th through so many back is everyone now is paid $3,000 for 11th. 10th place is $1000 more for the 2009 Daytona event.

$15,000 to win Daytona, I think. So, the cheat is on! You move one more space is more money. "You ain't win inn, you ain't cheat inn enough." Same lame Nasbike/NastyCar is one fine after another.

So, who is the bad boy in the game of racing? The Rules Makers or someone with a questionable crank from the back door is whozzzzzzzzzzzz Year Daddy!

Shut up and race! Dis outfit needs a NASZAR is ask the Prez to add one more to the Beer YO Crap Tick political surroundings IS racing.

I'd throw the bums out you stop the race is better know how to bang off of a car you wanna go racing. Check my police reports. I bang off of cars is stay upright is some pace car is one more fool to Paz dare azz is.

WOT happened to racing?

It appears our old friend is back...... Lucky he's on my ignore list.....

Yo know, Bordo... They banned me at WSB, but someone wanted me to keep up the posts. He thought I was funny. And here I am sarcastic caustic is the mood of the place.

Not my fault you need to hide in the sand, you dumb auzzie... Now, he either lied or I pulled his wang gear is flushed out the hypocrite.

Geez, he gets to give an opinion, but my opinion of the world is you ignore the truth is I hope they cut off your neck is burn your hose down. Your immigrants are a menace is don't start acting like one or I'll tell you how stupid your war book is.

You know, the azzholes you buy your oil from. Be like them is your last move.

Got to be worth Brownie points riding Daytona

Originally Posted by smurf211

So I'm laying there in my drug induced euphoria (legal) all set to get caught up on the AMA stuff and the first thing they show is Miladin dropped out and is announcing retirement. It all went down hill from there. I watched about 10 minutes and just deleted the recording. I feel for the guys that are working hard to race. They are getting caught up up in all of this BS, never mind the fans. I sure miss the days when Jake and Miguel were coming in on the corner with both rear wheels off the ground battling for 3rd and 4th. Hopefully a little cyclical evolution will take place and this will recover. Sad. Wonder where Matt is going, too much talent there to sit idle.

I have to admit something here. I ran into a replay of the race and decided what the hey, and watched the whole thing. It turned out to be a pretty good race. So I got reminded that it ain't over till its over. Have to eat a little crow here. I'll remember next time.