MotoAmerica | Round 8 | Circuit of the Americas | 8-10 Sept

They are using Youtube to gain views/sponsors and brag on Linkedin, they released a whole series of posts about their growth w/ Youtube on Linkedin.

They are in the customer acquisition business, they have to try something so they broadcast SBK live on Youtube.

 

I don't know if I'll renew MA Live next year if they're going to put all the races on Youtube almost instantly. Seeing practice and qualifying live isn't that big a deal to me. I don't mind supporting them but with all the live stream problems they've had 3 years to fix and haven't I'm not so inclined to give them money for a poor product I can get for free an hour later.

 

No, that sucked actually. But I figured it was due to the pricing of the facilty. We could have had a cooler at one of my friends pits but I just didn't think that far ahead.
I spent ~$100 per day on beer, which wasn't that many lol

 

Damn! I don't spend that much on beer in 5 years! They were $15 each?

 

Yea, pinky up with a Bud Light isn't a good look these days.

 

Bud light was $10, Ultra was $13.75 and Stella was $14 something. I could be wrong but thats what I remember. Oh, they were 16oz'ers so a HELL OF A DEAL

 

A small soda was like $6.

 

So, I didn't realize, but MA posts reports of their races with a crapton of data. The 2023 COTA report hasn't been posted yet, but we've got 2022 numbers:

30 entries (one class run, two races)
53k TV household views
2mil Streaming views
4.4mil Social Media Impressions / 254k Social Media Engagements
April 8 to 18th, 2022, event was April 8-10

They go into lots more detail, for example, Live+ barely beat their Twitter video posts for views, YT blew it out of the water, FB blew YT out of the water. No attendance counted, guessing MotoGP didn't pass on that info? They show Laguna this year at 37k attendance for comparison. Looks like next week would be the close of the data window so should see a report for 2023?

 

the turn around time is not consistent. they havent posted Pitt yet but its not a motogp policy its a cota policy to not release attendance figures

 

Attack Yamaha fuel sample being sent to VP lab for analysis… apparently they used a barrel from 2022 at cota.

dq? Time to tear the #1 plate off Jake’s bike? Herrin popping monogamy?

 

Fuel is definitely different this year, we melted a piston on an engine that was tuned on 2022 fuel. Dialed things back a bit and no more problems.

 

Id recommend listening to get the full story. It really seems that there is a ton of stuff going on around the fuel. It starts at roughly the hour mark. Also a few good 24 silly season rumors in there.

 

The Estenson Racing SBK Rumor had me a little happy! Fores moving to an SBK. '24 looking solid!

 

The on throttle time for JD in race 2 was pretty impressive. He was definitely on a mission.

 

Stanboloi said months ago he had a 2022 drum he was saving for COTA.

He also said a while back that VP wanted to change the fuel for 2023 but the SBK teams voted no.

Looks like apparently VP changed the fuel anyways and didn't tell nobody.

 

Looks like all the podium fuel samples are actually "pending" , not just the Yamaha batch..... 3rd page is COTA

http://www.motoamericaregistration.com/PDF/2023/2023 Technical Inspection Log.pdf

 

To add more to this rumor, now Dallas Daniels will be riding in Twins at NJ.

https://www.roadracingworld.com/new...r-dallas-daniels-racing-in-twins-cup-at-njmp/

 

Also great to see Ben Gloddy coming back for NJMP!

Ben Gloddy Rejoins Rodio Racing – Powered by Robem Engineering For REV’IT! Twins Cup Finale At New Jersey

https://motoamerica.com/ben-gloddy-...ing_wp_cron=1694804475.2375519275665283203125