Round 5 |Komatsu MotoAmerica Superbikes at the Ridge | Aug 28 - 30

It was like that initially.

 

I'm not saying i don't understand why they scheduled it all the way they did but its not surprising guys from the support classes are dropping and not doing this round. The original schedule was better but with COVID is all got fucked up. Still you can't expect racers to show up for only 1 race. They should have incentivised them with 2 races for each class.

 

Years ago, that was what we did. I think it was Daytona, Barber, California rounds (I forget the order), Miller, Wisconsin, Ohio, VIR and then later, NJMP was added. I think that was the order. One big loop.

 

Speaking of only 1 race, are they on some kind of odd time constraint? Usually we get 2 races of either twins or stock1000 but both only running once this weekend. Kind of a bummer but there's also wsbk so still no shortage of races to watch.

 

I don't think they messed up at all. This was the pre-Covid schedule.

2020 MotoAmerica Series (Provisional)

March 10-11 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Alabama (Preseason Test)

April 3-5 Circuit of The Americas, Austin, Texas

April 17-19 Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Braselton, Georgia

May 1-3 Virginia International Raceway, Alton, Virginia

May 29-31 Road America, Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin

June 26-28 Ridge Motorsports Park, Shelton, Washington

July 10-12 WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Monterey, California (TBC)

August 7-9 Pittsburgh International Race Complex, Wampum, Pennsylvania

August 21-23 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana

Sept. 11-13 New Jersey Motorsports Park, Millville, New Jersey

Sept. 17-20 Barber Motorsports Park, Birmingham, Alabama

 

Link to the entry list?

Twins Cup specifically please.

 

http://www.motoamericaregistration.com/Results/2020/RIDGE/20_7_RIDGE_TWN_P1_entry.pdf

 

Gracias

 

Yeah I found that odd too.
At least the Stock1000 guys can also do the SBK races. Feel bad for the twins guys.

Also, anyone know if there will be live timing for the test today? Im ready for some racing already

 

Making us run transponders so live timing should be up at 8 pacific. Twins and juniors up first together

 

Nice to see how close Jake and Matthew are to Cameron. Anyone know what happened to Kyle Wyman?

 

Anyone have details on Kyle's crash?

He seems okay, broken swingarm looks gnarly though.

 

What pictures?

 

Nevermind, did a spot for the YouTube channel.

 

Was just looking at live timing for some of the sessions in the afternoon and then the results posted....who is this Adam Robarts dude and why is he not doing a full season? Dude's killing it out there so far! 2nd fastest today, just a bit faster than Escalante!

 

Damn, feel bad for Kyle, that Dookati doesn't seem to crash well at all.

 

Also nice to see Toni is as close as he is. Hopefully with this track being new to everyone we will see a bit of a tighter grid in superbike than we've seen previously.

 

Yea, that was a bit gnarly considering a simple lowside. I think Kyle's bike has been hanging out with Fong's bike. I know there's always talk about a few specific GP riders' abilities to destroy equipment but I don't think anyone has mastered destroying equipment like Fong has. Not a knock against Fong. Everyone crashes sometimes. Just seems like for some reason every time Fong dismounts it's spectacular. Whether he highsides himself to the moon or it just starts as a simple front end tuck, you can pretty guarantee Fong's bike is going to be trying out for the olympic gymnastics team. Never seen anything like it. Kyle's crash seems to be similar based on what he said in the video.