F-USA question

[Super Dave]

The class between NOOB & FAST is there already...

CCS Expert.

If Tony Meiring showed up at Blackhawk, he'd race expert.

If Mladin showed up, he'd race expert too.

If Rossi showed up, he'd race expert too.

Regardless, as an expert, it would be my job to go race, improve my performance and set up to do the job.  The points, purse, and contingency is there for the taking.  That's what winning as an expert is.

But becoming an expert does not entitle one to anything.  If there is contingency, go take it by performing.

To be an expert, you only need to show proficency to a reasonable degree.  It's not about being the fastest.  

That's about winning, being the fastest.

[gpstar1]

I raced fusa thunderbike this year as an AM and I felt that it made me become a faster rider. I kind of leveled off last year and coming into this year as an Am, but after following some fast riders around summit point I found new lines and shift points which really helped me become a faster contender today.  I started this year at summit doing 1:26 after a fusa race i'm at low 23's.  If your lightweight AM try a fusa race sometime.

[OmniGLH]

LOL!  Like Summit?

ummmmmm okay bad example  ;)

[OmniGLH]

f they can go that fast why can't I?


You're not going to get faster if you're not racing faster people.  

Bingo.

+1  :)

[OmniGLH]

And fighting with the likes of Purk, Ortega, Fuersthaler, Rosno, etc continually causes/requires me to step up my game.  

Jeff gets it!

[Mongo]

Clear Channel Entainment(CCE) purchased SFX Motorsports in 2000 after it, SFX, purchased CCS.  FUSA was a program that started at Willow Springs in the mid 80's and was bought by someone to take nationally.  FUSA was ran at WERA events, then it was ran alone.  In 2000, it was purchased and put under the whole CCS, CCE, SFX program.

There have been amateur FUSA programs.  

Currently, FUSA is like the national pro series for CCS.  It's an add on to a CCS expert license.  FUSA is only a national points series.  

That help?

Don't forget PACE was in there somewhere too.

Just a point of fact - Bill Huth at Willow Springs started FUSA as a class for totally unlimited bikes.  WERA Pro Series bough the class from Huth in 1991 and began running it as a class in the newly formed WERA Pro Series (basically the same as the National Challenge Series is now with FUSA as the premier class).  We had some fun and had a very successful professional racing series that had TV when even the AMA didn't but the overall hassle and some internal issues with partners were more than Evelyne wanted to deal with so she sold WERA's interest to Doug Gonda for a dollar. Doug got money backing from CCS and he and CCS started NASB, that folded essentially and PACE bought CCS from the Edmondsons and the FUSA name from Gonda - they decided at that point to use the name for a series rather than a class (which is cool by me since the class had already been castrated to a mere shell of it's former self) and as time went on it couldn't do standalone events and runs as you see it now.  

I'll skip pointing out my feelings on it being the next logical step before AMA for my own BBS :D

[Super Dave]

And I raced FUSA with WERA in 1990 and in 1991...just a couple of events.

Oliver had the Nitros powered TZ250 in '90 and the YZR500 in '91.  

My evil GSXR750 for me.

[afeuer]

The competition in the WERA nationals is deeper than the FUSA Nationals.

[Super Dave]

I think it depends on who shows up.  I changes year to year.  I think FUSA is depleated this year.  

In the early 90's, some contigency races at Blackhawk would have been deeper than FUSA of a couple years ago.

[afeuer]

I agree. When there is manuf. money available there are going to be guys that are not regulars.
I meant that there are more fast guys running closer lap times at the WERA Nationals. There are 8-10 guys in the premier WERA classes running similar lap times, where as FUSA there is Jeff Wood, Jensen, Greenwood then the rest of the field (usually a couple seconds a lap slower).

[Super Dave]

Yeah, I'll partially agree with that.

But if you put Jensen at those WERA events, he'll usually go as fast as he needs to to win...maybe two seconds faster than the rest of the field.  

Wood doesn't do much outside of Loudon or FUSA.  Same for Greenwood.

That doesn't mean anything about the organization.  Riders are fast, not organizations.

We could say that AMA isn't deep for similar reasons...because you've got Mladin...then everyone a couple seconds behind.  But we know that the field is deep.

[Super Dave]

Did you sell your bikes, Andy?