Quote Originally Posted by Little Mick View Post
wonder if that would change if the facts were involved...

How can not having 2 tracks (Wacky and Winton) which are run by BAC who have decided to not do AASA bike licences anymore (not sure of their drivers for this decision) and appear to not have an interest in bikes, be better for anyone in the bike game?
I respectfully disagree, as usual, with your view Mick.

AASA was a workaround for TON to dodge the fact that the governing body of our sport thought what TON was doing to splinter the sport into two competing series for personal gain was wrong. I agree. Would you really argue that having two competing series is good for the sport?? Superleague, anyone?

Remember that TON had just been fired by MA from running ASBK, 5 years into a 10 year contract. Nobody really knows the underlying reasons for that, but to have the governing body make a judgement for the benefit of the sport should be respected, not circumvented.

This RACER insurance and track licensing bullshit is AASA all over again but with a different name. It's circumventing the governing body, again for personal gain, demonstrably not for the good of the sport.

The FXRRC ("FX Road Racing Club", with a disclaimer that 'Road Racing Club' is a registered business name of TON's company, not an actual club) was designed to run St George out of business. He even copied the prizes and rule structure. He scheduled a race meet for a week prior to ST George, to steal the club's customers.

RYM is the one decent thing he's done. But that has been corrupted too; it used to be run with a track day, not with a race meet. Running it as a proper race meet again just competes with St George.

I agree St George should implement some better 'intro to racing' program, however insurance issues for TON are indicating that letting road bikes go racing is perhaps not the best way to go. If you broke your neck (or worse) racing in RYM because a road-going race bike wasn't lockwired, what would you think of RYM in it's current form?


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