Does ROC have to be at Daytona.

[WebCrush]

I love daytona, I said love, not like... its a great vacation for me every year after hard working.

Adam you going to daytona in the spring?

I'd love it too if it weren't for the drive and hotel $$.  To make it affordable I had to stay 45 minutes from the track.   I am NOT a morning person and driving to the track pre-dawn was not my idea of fun. :D  

I do have the toy hauler now, but no, not going this year, sold the 1k a few months ago, doing SuperMoto for 2006.  WERA has a VIR event that weekend, I'll be at that instead.

[Super Dave]

Good point Dave (closing in on 6000 posts!  :o )

Can I get a job at your company? Do you have your own business? Does your boss not know or care? At the track and now that i think about this board I want to be more like you!  :-*

Seriously how do you post so much?

I type fast.

I have a rather varied job schedule, and, often, I am my own boss.  So, i don't make much money, now, do I...LOL!

I like racing.  I have a couple of years history in CCS racing.  

[Mark Bernard]

Says the man who lives 30 minutes from the GNF! ::)  Hey Mark!  Check your voice mail and call me!

Who.... me?  ???

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Who.... me?  ???

Pay attention!  I quoted Mark Sorenson.  Are you Numbskulls NE?  No, I didn't think so!

Hey Bernard, IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT YOU!
 ;D

[Mark Bernard]

 :'(

[gpstar1]

Lets have it at Summit Point!!!  :D ;D ;)

[Super Dave]

I like Summit...

[gpstar1]

Me too.  ;)

[a13x]

Q. How do you feel personally about Daytona? Having raced and worked here for 30 years, is it just a very serious place? Some people say motorcycles don't belong here. Others say because of the history we should still be racing the old track. What do you think?

 
A. I'm not sure what I think, but what I think is that the place is unlikely to disappear from the calendar.

From a personal standpoint, it wouldn't bother me. Somebody once said to me, "When you retire, it'll be great to come to Daytona and see all your friends." When I retire, I won't come here again. There's too much mental anguish, for me, associated with the place. It wouldn't bother me personally if we didn't race here at all. From a racing series standpoint, it's an important race to us, more from tradition than from any other standpoint, I think. But I don't think the AMA racing series would rise and fall on Daytona not being here any more.

As far as whether we should come here or not, I guess I have my own personal opinions. From a company standpoint, we want to be where the teams are. So I don't feel it's fair for me to say. Our company is here, we're doing our job, we're doing it to the best of our ability.

From a personal standpoint, I can say I don't think we belong here. That's not my company's view, but necessarily that's my own personal view. From my standpoint, it's a racetrack that's outlived its—it was dangerous when they came here in the old days. We didn't recognize it. It's much more dangerous now. When I rode, TZ750s were going 175 mph, and now they're going 196 or whatever they go. It's too fast for here. So I guess that's a long answer to a fairly short question, as far as Daytona goes.

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Well that's interesting eh? (From Superbikeplanet's recent interview with Jim Allen of Dunlop.

[Super Dave]

CCS bikes do not go 196.

There are tracks that are on the schedule that have higher incidences of injuries per rider or per entry than Daytona.

Maybe you haven't raced at all the AMA tracks, but there are others on their schedule that are also dangerous.  Not because of top speed, but because of the things that you can hit, and that riders have hit.

Sorry to rain on it, but I'd enjoy the opportunities for change, but I have yet to hear of any real alternatives.  If you can't convince just a lowly racer like me, how are you going to get the  a racing organization with thousands of riders to make a decision to change their successful long term relationship with a race track that has been a good venue for over twenty years?

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

I've got a trophy on my wall that says 5th place, Daytona ROC.  It is perhaps my most cherished posession.  Competing at Daytona was the rush of a lifetime.  The history, the tradition, that bloody great wall.... :o
Does anyone remember when Al Unser Jr. won Indy?  In the post-race interview, a very emotional Jr. choked, "You just don't know what Indy means."  I feel that way about Daytona.  Say what you will, find a better venue for the ROC, whatever.  A different track might be better for all the right reasons.  But Daytona will always be Daytona.  Even now, thinking about being horizontal, five stories in the air makes my skin tingle and my eyes tear.  I just hope that someday I'll have the money to go back there before I retire from racing, because riding that place was the thrill of a lifetime.

[a13x]

Guess I'll have to try and go to ROC next year and win a Championship just so I can go 'oooooooh dayTONA!'

Hopefully I'll see Cole Trickle.