Is the new AMA really better?

Just browsed the results from the testing at Miller yesterday and thought
"Theres still a really big gap between the haves and the have nots"
I mean I know Josh Hayes is probably the only guy in the padock that could have given Ben and Mladin any kind of company like Hacker did his final SB year, but take Toye, who is very good but down the time sheets
Aside from removing Honda and Kawi as big time players how has the playing field been leveled?

 

great, close racing...what more can you ask for? (well except more sponsors...so the great riders on the sidelines can show us even more great, close racing)

 

Superbike isn't really close racing.
Sportbike is good stuff though.

 

I bet the available money, or lack thereof in this case, has more to do with anything. There would probably be more haves if there was more free flowing money around. The big teams will always have money to throw at their programs, where everyone else gets pinched.

 

Josh is just better.

Same as Mat and Ben. Remember when it had to be the Yosh bikes and that's the reason they won everything? Then, Ben went to WSBK and proved otherwise.

The racing has been great in SS and DSB. Racing has been good in SBK, and the only reason it isn't better is because Josh has really stepped it up. Not his fault.

 

is it the AMA's fault the have nots are have nots and not haves?

 

live timing is up now, i see steve rapp on a bmw!

 

Whomever decided it would be a good idea to wait 2 months between events is a dumbass.

 

My personal opinion, the spec stuff hurt sponsorship. I understand the reasoning behind spec fuel and tires, but I think things were better when there were mulitple tire vendors at the AMA races. I dont know how fuel vendors worked when everyone was running VP, but you know the tire companies here in the US took a beating not having a stake in pro racing.

 

I disagree Sean. It's not like they didn't know a long time ago that Fontana was off the calendar. Were it me, I'd have tried to keep the momentum going after the great racing they had at Daytona.

 

You must be looking at a different time sheet than I am.

 

My plan would have been to bid out each class to the tire companies. That would encourage each to bring their best and fill the padock with a few more comercial operations for the spectators to take in.

 

The two fastest guys in DSB are on non-factory supported teams. That would never happen in the days of rocket fuel and special tires...

 

Whoever.

 

Pfft.. LOL.

 

and :Off:
I've helped WERA in a negative way because of the weather. It's killed my racing so far this year. I've worked 66 hrs. the past month...Should be closer to 200.