| Author | Message | ||
     Badlionsfan |
Here it is.... http://www.nationalspeedsportnews.com/motorcycle-r acing/other-motorcycle-racing/asra-to-sanction-day tona-200/ | ||
| Bads1 |
a spin off of it. | ||
| Slaughter |
Yeah - that's ASRA. It'd be good to keep the 200 totally separate from the rest of the series. There is a HUGE difference in endurance racing (as in the 200) and the rest of the MotoAmerica series. Remember, back in the day, the Indy 500 was part of the Formula One series. Silly. | ||
| Panhead_dan |
All we need now is for the race to be on the TV. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Geoff May posted to this article to Facebook this afternoon saying "Uhh oh! Guess I know what I'll be doing that weekend." Let the speculation begin! | ||
| Fast1075 |
Geoff will be riding the new EBR 600 triple in the Daytona 200? | ||
| Kcfirebolt |
That will be a 675 triple thank you very much. | ||
| Bads1 |
It wont it ASRA. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
a spin off of it. Same track, same distance and still during bike week. Sanctioning body has changed, but what does that mean to you and I? Nothing as far as I can tell. | ||
| Bads1 |
Factory teams will not be involved. Same track same distance and 600's which Daytona motorsports ruined the race by doing in the first place and nothing against ARSA but without factory teams its Club racing. Hey at least they still have Supercross and Dirt Track. But ARSA is there own group. | ||
| Crusty |
When the AMA dropped New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the track tried to hold races under a different Sanctioning body. I think that maybe 17 spectators showed up. Considering how many spectators have been at the 200 the past few years, I think that the Speedway would be lucky to get that many. Oh, well... | ||
| Xb9er |
At least they are trying... | ||
| Slaughter |
Don't know that Daytona had the draw of Indy and COTA - Texas in recent years. It's a snoozefest for 2 hours but at least you can go outside the gates and "participate" in the "bike" events in town. | ||
| Panhead_dan |
When they choose not to televise an event, they are relegating it to be only a "local" event. Then they wonder why there is no fan base. Morons. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
When they choose not to televise an event, they are relegating it to be only a "local" event. Then they wonder why there is no fan base. Morons. That's not exactly how the business works. I doubt AMA, DMG or whoever called the networks and said "Don't pay TV rights for our race and then air it on your channel. We don't want our product on tv." The networks buy programming that they can get ratings and more importantly ad sales for. The fact is motorcycle road racing just doesn't capture the american audience. At a time when there are more sports networks than ever fighting over programming, motorcycle road racing is getting left behind. We can debate how we got here, but the fact is motorcycle road racing (especially american) is dead to the average american. | ||
| Firstbuell |
mebbe it'll all cycle around again and a new, M/C-friendly SPEED channel will arise...... | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Speed channel is dead for the same reason, no one watched the endless reruns of Pinks and trick my truck all week. All the major networks have a cable sports channel or 2 now, and there's MavTV that airs tons of racing too. | ||
| Blake |
How many cable channels are now vying for viewers in America and Europe? 100? 200? And DMG couldn't find one eager to capture a couple hundred thousand viewers? | ||
| Badlionsfan |
I'm sure they did try, but when advertisers saw the numbers I'm sure they passed. No ad revenue, no pay for the rights, no tv coverage. Was DMG asking too much money and unwilling to budge? Maybe, but we'll never know that. | ||
| Blake |
Not buying it. Had someone like John Ulrich been running the series, it'd still be going strong and fully televised. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Maybe, but my theory on what's wrong with interest motorcycle racing in the U.S. runs deeper. I think the problem is the motorcycle market is too fragmented. Everyone (I'm speaking generally, there are exceptions) is into their own little niche. So in what's already a small percentage of people in the US that are into motorcycles, each segment is even smaller. Cruiser riders don't care about "them crotch rockets", sport bike riders don't care about dirt bikes and neither of them like cruisers. Sure you have some of that in auto racing, but the initial pie is much larger. I'm probably not explaining it as well as I'd like, but it was a long night. I'm exhausted and going to bed now. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Regarding the Geoff May speculation.... http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/pegram-to-be-r iderteam-manager-for-team-hero-ebrs-2015-world-sup erbike-effort/#.VH9WafIlSYM.facebook | ||
| Bads1 |
Yep more iffy news | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Explain "iffy". Do you doubt the validity of the article? | ||
| Bads1 |
Nope direction again. | ||
| Fast1075 |
The actual press release is on EBR Facebook. |
