Thursday, January 23, 2014
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Austin, Texas 2014 - MOTOGP Here I Come
It has been a couple years since I have seen a race in person and with Laguna Seca cancelled I am heading to Austin for some prototype bike racing. Below are a couple of examples of what you can expect to see at a motoGP event, see you there!
Current world champion Marc Marquez of Spain, Honda owns his ass
Monster Energy Drink ladies, everyone wants a picture with them
And People Cry About Obama...
A few years a go the AMA sold the rights to their Superbike thing and the France family(the ones who own Daytona Speedway) decided to purchase it and run the day to day operations. Now if you do not know what Superbike racing is I will put it in a nutshell for you;
To be eligible the bike must be a production based vehicle that meets the minimum homologation numbers and engine displacement.
Superbike racing started here in the United States in the mid 70's and at one time our championship was 2nd only to the GP's, now known as motoGP for the younger peoples, and if you wanted to race GP's a good place to start was here in the States riding Superbikes. Many foreign riders competed in our championship including but not exclusive to a bunch of Canadians, Australians and a couple Brits. Now just about every country that has a race track has it's own national Superbike series, Mexico and Russia included, there is also the World Superbike Championship.
Back in the days of old the number of bikes on the grid was impressive and many of the riders were capable of winning the race, not just 3 or 4 front runners. The times and economy would take their toll on our series, first in the 80's then again in 90's and once more in the 2000's, only this time the AMA would allow someone else to take over and make things better.
The France family is a NASCAR oriented business and when they took over AMA Roadracing they instituted car racing policies like rolling starts and pace cars, all dismal failures to reinvent what didn't need overhauling. Today I looked at the schedule for 2014 AMA Roadracing and I see all of 5 races, none in California. 5 fucking races...
If the France family thought that buying the series and then taking it apart and limiting the races, showing said races 2 weeks after the fact would give their NASCAR series more airtime they have succeeded. They are also dumbing down America in the process by creating an atmosphere that Superbike racing doesn't really exist and with just 5 races on the schedule how can America ever hope to have a motoGP champion again?
To be eligible the bike must be a production based vehicle that meets the minimum homologation numbers and engine displacement.
Superbike racing started here in the United States in the mid 70's and at one time our championship was 2nd only to the GP's, now known as motoGP for the younger peoples, and if you wanted to race GP's a good place to start was here in the States riding Superbikes. Many foreign riders competed in our championship including but not exclusive to a bunch of Canadians, Australians and a couple Brits. Now just about every country that has a race track has it's own national Superbike series, Mexico and Russia included, there is also the World Superbike Championship.
Back in the days of old the number of bikes on the grid was impressive and many of the riders were capable of winning the race, not just 3 or 4 front runners. The times and economy would take their toll on our series, first in the 80's then again in 90's and once more in the 2000's, only this time the AMA would allow someone else to take over and make things better.
The France family is a NASCAR oriented business and when they took over AMA Roadracing they instituted car racing policies like rolling starts and pace cars, all dismal failures to reinvent what didn't need overhauling. Today I looked at the schedule for 2014 AMA Roadracing and I see all of 5 races, none in California. 5 fucking races...
If the France family thought that buying the series and then taking it apart and limiting the races, showing said races 2 weeks after the fact would give their NASCAR series more airtime they have succeeded. They are also dumbing down America in the process by creating an atmosphere that Superbike racing doesn't really exist and with just 5 races on the schedule how can America ever hope to have a motoGP champion again?
Eddie Lawson on a 70's Kawasaki S1 Superbike
Eddie Lawsons FZ750 Daytona 200 Superbike from the early 80's
Early 90's Ducati 888 Superbike
Haga on the Ducati 1098 Superbike 2006 I think?
This is what a current R1 Superbike example looks like from Yamaha
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