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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Oct 28 2009, 08:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I believe the AMA is in crisis mode. I have some insider info that AMA is trying to extricate DMG. I was asked to withhold mentioning it, but after reading this on superbikeplanet, I figured I'd share a heads up with you guys.
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I believe they have been in crisis mode for a few seasons.
Everyone was ignoring the signs until this season when someone told it like it is, however the ideas to fix the problems is another story.
Should be interesting to see how the AMA can come back and be another mediocre racing institution once again.
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I believe they have been in crisis mode for a few seasons.
Should be interesting to see how the AMA can come back and be another mediocre racing institution once again.
Wouldn't blame them for leaving. The fans will never be able to jump the mental hurdle of NASCAR. NASCAR is too culturally prevalent for the average fan to believe that DMG will do anything other than create NASBIKE. I don't think DMG is aware how poor their reputation actually is outside the world of NASCAR. The average non-NASCAR fan hates them with a burning passion. I have no idea what crime they have committed by building NASCAR. It's just another boring motorsport in a sea of boring motorsports. But somehow, it is a source of never ending scorn from "real" racing fans.
Oh well, manufacturers own AMA Pro again. They are going to build near-prototype motorcycles and refuse to provide satellite equipment. Fun times. I can only hope that nearly losing the sport to DMG makes them snap out of their stupid country club mentality and start building a sport that is moving forward instead of retracting. Now that Buell is dead, maybe they can actually return to a more reasonable management of the series.
Who knows? At this point I'm kind of 50/50 about the whole thing. Privateers are 1,000,000 times better than letting the factories own the sport, but DMG haven't really demonstrated any technical competency. It's too bad DMG won't tell people what they are trying to do with the sport from a technical standpoint. All we see are rules, some good some bad, and we have no idea whether it's what DMG actually want or whether they are the result of a political battle behind the scenes. If you don't tell people what's going on, they are just going to make wild guesses. DMG never addressed the root of the problem---the fans thought they were going to create a dumbed-down sport comprised of rolling billboards and riding salesmen. They never addressed the allegations which means the average person is going to assume DMG are guilty as charged.
Like I said, I don't think DMG even have the slightest idea how loathed they are outside of the NASCAR world. I don't have the slightest idea how the hate-mongering started,
but that's just the way it is.
I think DMG's only hope is to spin off a wholly-owned subsidiary and give it a completely different mission statement and a completely different leadership team and completely different board members (sorry RE, back to GrandAm). At some point they are going to have to learn about modern racing technology and racing development. Start a new subsidiary to ditch the NASCAR demons.
Oh well, manufacturers own AMA Pro again. They are going to build near-prototype motorcycles and refuse to provide satellite equipment. Fun times. I can only hope that nearly losing the sport to DMG makes them snap out of their stupid country club mentality and start building a sport that is moving forward instead of retracting. Now that Buell is dead, maybe they can actually return to a more reasonable management of the series.
Who knows? At this point I'm kind of 50/50 about the whole thing. Privateers are 1,000,000 times better than letting the factories own the sport, but DMG haven't really demonstrated any technical competency. It's too bad DMG won't tell people what they are trying to do with the sport from a technical standpoint. All we see are rules, some good some bad, and we have no idea whether it's what DMG actually want or whether they are the result of a political battle behind the scenes. If you don't tell people what's going on, they are just going to make wild guesses. DMG never addressed the root of the problem---the fans thought they were going to create a dumbed-down sport comprised of rolling billboards and riding salesmen. They never addressed the allegations which means the average person is going to assume DMG are guilty as charged.
Like I said, I don't think DMG even have the slightest idea how loathed they are outside of the NASCAR world. I don't have the slightest idea how the hate-mongering started,
I think DMG's only hope is to spin off a wholly-owned subsidiary and give it a completely different mission statement and a completely different leadership team and completely different board members (sorry RE, back to GrandAm). At some point they are going to have to learn about modern racing technology and racing development. Start a new subsidiary to ditch the NASCAR demons.
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Interesting to see what comes of this. After hitching their mule securely to the now defunct Buell, I'm sure the Japanese manufacturers thought DMG looked vulnerable and have taken their best shot... Hope the past and this year add up to lessons learned for the next regime.
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