DMG accomplishment!

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It pretty hard to take a league and destroy it in one year, but DMG has accomplished it.

The thing is, like Lex, I did see some vision in what they had ‘in theory’ proposed. The problem is they took a fairly decent idea and destroyed the possibility of implementing it because of mismanagement, arrogance, incompetence, disregard for integrity, and sheer disrespect to fellow human relationships.

The AMA was mediocre, make no mistake, it was excruciatingly boring and lob sided, but to make us look back and at least want that ...... former series is an amazing accomplishment.

EPIC FAILS--I guess that's some kind of accomplishment?

Could there be a silver lining? If like the article mentioned, there are American racers possibly looking for jobs in WSBK & Moto2, and if some make it to these two series then---THANKS DMG!

People still watch AMA or DMG... or whatever it is???

AMA is like the Kmart version of Motorcycle racing, scratch that.... more like the Dollar Store of Motorcycle racing.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Sep 22 2009, 02:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>LINK

It pretty hard to take a league and destroy it in one year, but DMG has accomplished it.

The thing is, like Lex, I did see some vision in what they had ‘in theory’ proposed. The problem is they took a fairly decent idea and destroyed the possibility of implementing it because of mismanagement, arrogance, incompetence, disregard for integrity, and sheer disrespect to fellow human relationships.

The AMA was mediocre, make no mistake, it was excruciatingly boring and lob sided, but to make us look back and at least want that ...... former series is an amazing accomplishment.

EPIC FAILS--I guess that's some kind of accomplishment?

Could there be a silver lining? If like the article mentioned, there are American racers possibly looking for jobs in WSBK & Moto2, and if some make it to these two series then---THANKS DMG!

The Big 4 are losing billions of dollars, but the AMA's problems (all of which are financial) are due to DMG.

WSBK got off of the juice. They lost all of their big name riders and almost all of their factory support. Yet, now they are in decent financial shape and they appear to be gaining talent from a retracting MotoGP series.

If WSBK can survive, the AMA can survive.

Haha. Lex, did ur reaching fantasy comparison also factor in DMGs arrogance and burning of bridges. Look again at Hondas pull out, did financial considerations make a blip on why they wer leaving? They basically said they hate DMG and thats the sole reason for leaving.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Sep 22 2009, 06:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>The Big 4 are losing billions of dollars, but the AMA's problems (all of which are financial) are due to DMG.

WSBK got off of the juice. They lost all of their big name riders and almost all of their factory support. Yet, now they are in decent financial shape and they appear to be gaining talent from a retracting MotoGP series.
If WSBK can survive, the AMA can survive.

Yet they somehow stayed proffesional and advanced performance. Compare that to DMG who went the complete opposite direction. And dont kid yourself,the factories are very involved in WSBK.The difference is leadership, WSBk has it,DMG doesnt.They came on the scene like a new pimp and started slapping people around and found out that bike people are a little different.They are not real big on turning the other cheek,instead they rebel.The AMA will survive, but i believe it will ultimately be without DMG. The France family is in to making money,i dont see them watching this thing bleed cash for to long.

I can understand Lex's WSBK comparison.

When the series went spec tire in 2003 I thought the stagnation of tire progression would make the series obsolete. And I thought I was right when I saw Toseland (who had been nothing more than promising at best in 2003) and Laconi (who had been nowhere in his previous stint in WSBK) as the main championship protagonists.

I look at the AMA now and I feel about it like I did about WSBK after 2003. The big names are gone, rule changes have hindered progression, the series is dead in the water. Now DMG has made countless more errors than WSBK did and thus have much more of a mess to clean up, but WSBK gives me some hope.

The way I see it, WSBK is back in full force and only appears to be getting stronger. DMG has made a lot of errors and have to clean up quite a few messes. Like Lex said, some of them were preexisting, many were not. But those fires need attending to regardless. If DMG can't put those fires out or is unwilling to try, then they need to hand the series over to someone with the vision and knowledge of the Flaminis.

I know I'm always carrying on about how we need to follow WSBK and it's apples and oranges to a certain extent. I just look at the shape of American Superbike racing and find it in quite similar shape to WSBK 2003/04 and marvel in the rejuvenation of that series.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (povol @ Sep 22 2009, 09:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Yet they somehow stayed proffesional and advanced performance. Compare that to DMG who went the complete opposite direction.

Fair enough. I think all of us, even me, have agreed that DMG are indeed a group of Nazis who will run around committing atrocities while acting bewildered at negative reactions.

No doubt DMG have been bullheaded about rolling starts, dispatching pace vehicles onto the track mid race, racing production bikes with few modifications, and a few other ideas that have blown up in their face. I think they need to make some compromises, and I'm always hoping they will get the sport on solid financial ground or modify tracks so that more highly tuned SBKs can return.

I agree with Austin, the situation is somewhat depressing, but if DMG can gut it out and working on perfecting the day to day operations, there is reason to believe the AMA may emerge in better condition.