More about the demise of Road Racing

[Steviebee]

I got this off the Soup's collum from R. Hayden
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2005/Apr/050420rlh.htm

"I'm only 21 and I have to consider the future of this sport here in America. When you see a huge line of cars leaving in the middle of what is supposed to be the biggest US race of the year, you wonder if you're racing the right series."

It seems as thiers more discontent about the D200.
I'm still hoping that AMA racing will realize thier mistake and repent to the racing gods for forgiveness.

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

Although if I had some nurse going on about "get another hobby" like he had, I'd be having a nice conversation with the hospital chief of staff. Nurses are there to deal with medical probelsm, not trying to pass their personal agenda about someones hobbies. >:(

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Daytona was once as important as Suzuka.  Look at it now!  How about this?  WSB rules, pays points for WSB and AMA?  That would be one heck of a show!
Really, the AMA is in a shambles.  Does anyone even care at this point who wins what?  It's a shame.  Then you turn on Speed, and watch ANY series from Europe....

[251am]

Daytona was once as important as Suzuka.  Look at it now!  How about this?  WSB rules, pays points for WSB and AMA?  That would be one heck of a show!
Really, the AMA is in a shambles.  Does anyone even care at this point who wins what?  It's a shame.  Then you turn on Speed, and watch ANY series from Europe....

   I care to watch the likes of Haskovec and his M4 crew. The 200 was being set up for Honda last year. The same stuff the AMA did for Harley in flat track when the Honda's starting winning in Springfield, is happening for Honda at 200-special treatment. Then again, there's lots of folks here who think 600s and 750s are the wave of the racing future;safety and economy are the main issues argued, right? Was R. Hayden alluding to emigrating to Europe to WSBK? 250 GPs?

[tzracer]

The AMA really had no choice to make the D200 a 600 race. The track wanted it to be a 600 race. Rumor is that Daytona said take it or leave it, if the AMA did not agree to 600s, Daytona was going to ask FUSA if they wanted to have the D200.

[Fat_Nate]

I've been going to Daytona for more than 25 years, and I can tell you it was pretty sad to see Neil Hodgson and Mladin duke it out in what was basically a sprint support race for 600cc bikes.  That's a long ways from Roberts and Spencer on GP bikes.  

The most interesting foreign rider in the 200 was, like, Stahner Kritzlepotz from Bonn, Germany.  I would love to see Vermullen, Chili, Capirossi . . . even Rossi at Daytona.

I guess that's Laguna Seca's role, though.