MotoAmerica changes for 2018

Please.

You plead poverty nearly as much as the pint sized pimp.

 

Cause it's just a club race lol

 

Nice try. Hard to plead poverty when you're flaunting your wealth.

 

I'm sure it's not, I wasn't being totally serious. But what they are doing damn sure isn't helping club racing, IMO.

 

Just give it to the gardener or the cook and cut their slave wages to nothing, Rockefeller.

 

I race a twin so I may be a little biased but, is there any reason this couldn't help club racing a little?

 

This part I definitely get and agree with, only so much pie to go around.

 

Do you guys really think MA has made these changes with a "if you build it, they will come" perspective? They've clearly done some research, talked to the teams and racers, talked to the manufacturers, and talked to the sponsors, and they know there will be enough participants.

 

I choose 'C All of the above.'
They are trying to grow the show. This press release has generated serious conversation (6 pages in the first day) which generates interest, which generates participation, which generates money. The whole idea is to bring in more money/racers/spectators/sponsors.
How much does it cost to build a competitive 600 vice an SV/FZ/ZX/KTM ? Tuners classes are part of a solution, because not very many have Broome level resources. There are many who would like to showcase their tuning/development skills, and show that you can be competitive on less than 7 figures left of the decimal point.

 

I'd say the Bostrom Brothers did quite well....
Kyle Wyman as broome has stated seems to be doing pretty well for himself.

The Wait brothers as well were both FUSA rides and one a champion.

Steve Rapp went and won a couple championships (even towards the end of his career he made bank)

Bobby Fong got the triple crown ride from his HD performance, then led to 2 different factory triumph rides (mine included)

Is that enough or should i go on?

 

Did the 4 rounds WERA ran with MA hurt club racing? If anyone watched any of those races, they seemed to be exactly what the naysayers here are talking about. Fast club guys that were wanting to race during a pro weekend. They didn't seem to be a feeder class or somewhere to build talent and yet everyone seemed to enjoy having that class run. Why would this new twins class be all that much different?

 

That. Eslick did plenty before the XR class. So did Rapp. Both Wymans raced 600s before the XRs. Fong has always been a bit of a mystery to me. You know him far better than I do. I'm not sure why his career seemed to stall out. He's got the chops it seems.

I'm not sure what relevance the FUSA stuff has. I'm talking about, specifically, the HD XR1200 class and the KTMs. The classes that were, supposedly, their feeder classes.