Canceled: AMA Races at Miller Motorsports Park

Chin up dude! :up:



Bite your tongue on the Laguna round! :tut:

It hadn't even occurred to me that RE/DMG could possibly even leverage themselves right out of that 'shared' weekend as well.

 

Hmm... Just another nail in the AMA/DMG coffin...
There is no way this series is still around come the end of the year...

 

Sad, sad, sad.

These things usually happen in threes. I can't imagine what's coming next.

DMG is a train wreck full of abortions heading over a cliff.

Let's all enjoy some WSBK and MotoGP, and take a minute to remember AMA pro racing. It's done, stick a fork in it.

 

That might be overstating things just a wee little bit.











Or not...

 

Apparently the term "Close Enough" no longer applies to just horse shoes & hand grenades.

 

Where is RE to chime in on this one. How the hell can someone who has made so much money in his life miss the bulls-eye by so much. Not all business models can be templated and transfered from one company/series to another with equal success. This reeks of an epic failure to understand the target audience. Use the World Superbike model and sport will reach its maximum saturation for the US market (which will never be huge).

 

there is rumor that there are no noise restriction, just higher rent to make noise

 

Well RE has been on and posted in another thread. Come on in here RE, we want your take on this. We all want to hear what excuse you will pull out of your ass this time.

 

This is downright garbage! Leave it up to the NASCAR morons to screw up real racing.
Somehow DMG has managed to make AMA racing even worse than before.

 

You know I will admit I am only a lowly peon, and while I had my doubts about things at the beginning of the season, I was willing like most to give this new AMA/DMG stuff a chance. I am running out of excuses and ways I can justify in any way what DMG is doing.

 

So are you saying that you would welcome the MIC with open arms?

 

If they were competent to actually run it and not run it into the ground, than yes.

 

Having Miller canceled is a real dissapointment. I cant believe that they would let us fans down like this especially when its one of the races that we wait all year for. DMG GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER! For this sport to grow we need to maximize the amount of events not cut back. Funny how Nascar seems to dominate the airways with like 50 races a year and constant coverage of live qualifying, practice, and everything else. Why cant the same effort be put into the broadcasting of our sport? I must say the 200 night race was awesome aside from the cautions, we should be moving forward from that not backwards.

 

Have they come up with dates for the AMA rounds at Jennings and Tally yet?

 

2 weeks after Roebling, and the week before CMP.

 

Can you imagine Mat at Jennings and Roebling, my money would be on a sub 1:11 at Jennings, and a 1:06 at Roebling.

 

It would be nice if they used the World age limit of 24 as well... I'm 22 now, if I was 21 I guarantee I would be out there running... set the limit at 24, or just make it for the 1st 2 years of being an AMA Pro

 

I can't begin to say how fired up I am about this. I just bought my plane ticket to Utah yesterday. Ughhh.

At least WorldSBK really is a great thing to watch!!!

Out at Fontana today, my thought was...hey...no matter all the things that have occurred this offseason, at least there are bikes on the track. At least racing is happening, no matter how screwy things are. However, seeing a schedule with every race at a non-ISC owned track as "subject to change" really is a scary thing. Today's announcement of the race being scrapped at Miller saddens me, as this really is not, in my humble opinion, the right direction for professional road racing to be moving.

I really hope RE will actually just listen to reason, because the current state of affairs are so out of order its proposterous. It's almost as if he is intentionally trying to bury the series as if it's some retribution/revenge for the lawsuit fiasco between him and the AMA years ago.

At this point, in addition to everything and everyone else, I see one very large finger that should be pointing to Rob Dingman for approval of the sale of all AMA racing properties to the DMG. He seems to have escaped everything unscathed thus far, which I find amazing.

 

I am sure he was laughing all the way to the bank

 

+ 1

I think a lot of this falls on him too, for his decision to sell out. Not a bad idea to get ProRacing in someone else's hands, but geez, he might as well have sold a fireworks stand to a pyromaniac.