Daytona'04 R.O.C CANCELED !!!!

[BERZERKER]

anyone wish to wager on the size of the grids for a "National Championship"?  .....do I hear a average of less then 10 per class?.......sounds about right....

But just think how great it will be come Bike Week 2005 at the renovated D.I.S (provided it's completed)

[Thorny]

Lets make a push for them to change it to the same weekend but up to BlackHawk. So then we can see how the other regions like riding in the snow and sleet, just like the mid-west guys race in the first weekend every year! Everyone gets to race in sunny and rainy stuff, how about we all line up in the crap we are used to riding in on the first weekend in April, Hint: horsepower makes it harder to win in the snow, then no one can say how the we're beat merely by HP.  ;D  ;D  ;D

[MudDawg]

Well...I had plans of making ROC this year.  Serious effort all season long, etc.  Not now.  No interest in giving up that much of a home court advantge.  I don't learn tracks in one day.  Not and be seriously competetive....especially at a national championship level.

Guess I'll do more WERA and go to the GNF instead.  Probably the same for most of my regular racing friends as well...so there's another several thousand dollars not coming there way.  Methinks this is not going to be a good move for them this year.  But it's probably the only one they have given the late notice from DIS.

[GSXR RACER MIKE]

It doesn't matter because all the FL region guys will win everything. Everyone here knows that the FL guys are the fastest in the USA.  Why should they have to drive across country to whoop yer ass and take the national championships. It makes more sense to save them some money and let them just drive across the state (or county) and win the national titles.

     Your gonna have to recount those results and make sure just who does win if it's at another Florida track! :o lol  ;)

     I like the idea of Road Atlanta the week before the GNF (though I haven't been there), that way the weather should be acceptable and people can stay for the next weekends event if they want to. That might also get some larger grids since you could expect some of the GNF competitors to show up for a CCS event held there the week before.

[BERZERKER]

I would not generalize all Florida racers being faster. Yes we will make up most of the grids not because of racing superiority but due to numeric superiority. The same would hold true if the ROC was held at Barber, the Alabamie crowd may dominate the grids bt at least there was the opportunity for those throught out the country to travel to Alabama. At Homestead you must travel from the North and North only, geographic isolation will result in puny grids.

Hopefull the powers at CCS will offer a logical explaination as to why Homestead was chosen.

Maybe ISC had a hand in the decision, one ISC track (Daytona) for another..hhhmmmmmm

Either way it will be a watered down event at best...

[ecumike]

My .02

The fact that anyone can enter this 1 race that decides who's national champion is kinda screwbally anyways. If winning that 1 race to be called 'national champ.' is what you really wanna go for, then why don't you just skip like 3-4 regional race weekends, save your $$ and time off work, and just goto the ROC?

I mean you would save gas, tires, entry fees, etc.. Surely that would be enough for someone to make it.

I'd rather race a bunch of regionals and be regional champ in 1+ classes than skip half the races, just to make it to the final race so I could be called a 'national champ.'

Just my .02. Ream away :)

[stumpy]

"Everyone here knows that the FL guys are the fastest in the USA.  Why should they have to drive across country to whoop yer ass ".......


Ooooooohhhhh, I'm tellin' Benji!!!!!! He ain't gonna like that one ;D there's a couple a fast guys up here in da midwest eh.! ;)

Big "B" Where you at?


Stumpy

[ScubaSteve]

  Hers my 2 cents Im glad its anywhere besides daytona! Daytona blows it all comes down to Hp i agree with RA its got a mixture of both though ive never been there and i plan on going to the GNF this year so the more practice i get there the better. Homestead is a awesome track. We only ride there 3 times a year 1 more then daytona.Its also a easy track to learn trust me i picked it up very quick. Hell i dont care who the hell else shows up im definately going already have my rooms booked!! It is only 3 to 4 hrs south of daytona. Damn we should just change the location every year that way everyone has home track advantage one yr. ;D Just stop whining its a done deal. Homestead makes dayona look like a flea market its a hell of a lot nicer track.

[r6_philly]

anyone who doesn't like anything is whining  ::)

you live in FL right?

How about we go ROC at loudon?

yes you only race there 3 time, but Daytona are national races and everyone usually come. Homestead is regional race at the end of the country, no one is going to give up a home region weekend and $1000 extra to come for practice. So you race there 3 times and I race there 0 times.

Its an easy track to learn? how would you like to learn a track after driving about 26 hours? how easy would it be then? (it wouldn't be bad if others have raced there 3 times more than me this year. Plus are there track days that you can get track time? there is none for daytona)

Like I said, if you ever been to loudon to race and know you are not going to compete with the local guys, then you will know what I mean.

When I have a problem with a given situation, I don't want to be called "whining". Thank you

[WebCrush]

How about we go ROC at loudon?

Thats a great idea!! :D :D

[Xian_13]

Grrr....

Not that I have any desire to run at Daytona... but I have even less desire to run at homestead!

If the race has to be run in Oct, why not Vegas's new track.. or Mid-Ohio
Or even better yet... isn't there a new track in IL?

Looks like I won't be going to ROC, yet again :P

[ScubaSteve]

  Like i said before i would go anywhere to race it. it doesnt bother me one bit. If it was at daytona i probably wasnt going to go. As for learning tracks after driving for ever i did it for almost 10 years racing motocross it goes along with the sport. I plan on traveling alot this year so i guess ill be learning alot of tracks after driving long distances and i do plan on competing witht the local guys.Theres always going to be someone that has home track advantage just makes it even better when u beat them!! As far as track days they dont have any either!! :'(  As we all know us Florida guys are going to win anyways!! ;D I have never raced RA  but i plan on going there in July to get ready for the GNF!!  Come down here in June and see the track so what if you miss a few regionals to save money.