ASBK CANCELLED - Konsky fired

[Marshy]

So it's just been announced that the ASBK Darwin round is off, and that IEG has been sacked as the promoter of the series. We are not sure yet where this leaves round 3. Or future years, for that matter.

http://www.cycleonline.com.au/2014/05/09/darwin-asbk-round-cancelled-ieg-ousted-series-promoter/

and

http://www.cycleonline.com.au/2014/05/09/viewpoint-demise-asbk-series/

[chubb]

Well it was always just a matter of time...

[Nelso]

Pity it didn't happen at the end of last year. If they had got their shit together this year, they could have stopped TON from having the control he now has.

[Little Mick]

Pity it didn't happen at the end of last year. If they had got their shit together this year, they could have stopped TON from having the control he now has.

How so nelso? Who would they have got to run it?

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[CBR42]

What are the odds of any sanity coming from all this?Is their light at the end of the tunnel?I'm asking seriously.Its been a total mess for the last few years and has made no sense AT ALL to spectators.Absolutely none!No one knows whats what,who's who.Its dead set been a race to the bottom as far as killing a sport.

[gaz37]

Free enterprise wins again over 'Officialdom'. MA has been collecting our race licence fees for years and for what other than Insurance? MA is dominated by dirt bikes because the have the numbers. One assumes TON seen the MA 'monopoly' bringing nothing he could not replace to road racing and went out getting AASA insurance/licence. TON took the risk and sunk his own money into FX and won. Free country free Enterprise.
That said unless MA are going to subsidise Road Racing via a new promotor via increasing our race licence fees National MA Road Racing is dead as why would the dirt bike MA majority want to get involved into something they are not interested in and why should they. TON WANTS to run National Racing while MA merely wants to subbie it out to somebody other than TON.
So 2015 will have one Australian National series and that will be TON.
Road Racing needs a new peak body dedicated to it and it alone. Given there is only a limited number of stakeholders eg St George, Hartwell, PCRA, TON one assumes if the will was there it could be done.

[Nelso]

There's not a big enough market in Australia to allow promoters to run their own show unfortunately. The governing body needs to take control and pay someone a realistic wage to do the work necessary to organise one series, not let greedy entrepreneurs manipulate things to squeeze out competition and set their own prices to maximise profits for themselves. The promoters in recent years have taken cuts from tyre companies for the control tyre contracts, gouged racers for as much as possible and driven the sport into the ground with their selfish business tactics aimed at lining their own pocket. Let's face reality, they are and only ever have been in this to make money, anyone who thinks either of them has any altruistic motivations is completely delusional.

TON has all but managed to destroy road racing in NSW with his 'free enterprise' and splitting the scene into two factions, just like Superleague did back in the day to Rugby League. With the reduction of tracks and the control he managed to gain over those two tracks (complete monopoly over one of them), he had squeezed out a lot of the competition and prices went through the roof. We pay over $100 more per race meet in NSW than they do in Victoria for a club round. Eg. the Hartwell round at Philip Island in a couple of weeks is $390 for the two days and Broadford is only $290 for a two day event! They still come under MA and have the same insurance costs, the only difference is the cost of the track hire, which in NSW was/is heavily influenced by TON.

We are getting reamed up here and it won't change until a new track opens up and we get some competition or TON is removed from running bikes at Wakefield, end of story. I'm not saying he is completely to blame for the whole mess because ARDC and MA have played their part as well, but he certainly isn't an innocent party and has been a major contributor to the whole down fall of road racing, especially in NSW. Sadly, the sport is better off without Konsky and it would be better off without TON as well; the reason being, they are both selfish people and have the wrong motivation for being there in the first place.

[Nelso]

TON WANTS to run National Racing while MA merely wants to subbie it out to somebody other than TON.

In all honesty, if TON wanted to give up all of his own interests (Wakefield FX etc) and work for MA for a (decent) salary to run the ASBK instead of running his own show, I would probably support it, but as you know, he and MA will never be able to work together because his ego is too big (and he is too greedy) and they are too stubborn. :tsk:

[Phat3R]

Australians are not alone in the world in being parochial, but we are very good at it!

[Mstevo]

so with MA not having to/choosing to give IEG so much subsidy $$ can I expect my licence fees to drop by $100 or more next year????????????