Another Shot at the 299?

amamsuperbikeplanet.com is reporting that Jeremy McWilliams and Australian Garry McCoy will race Buells in '09 DMG/AMA action.  Add this to the Buell race mechanic ad last week and it is looking more and more likely that Buell is going racing.  The new AMA riles do seems to make this a perfect year to go after the Daytona 200 and I know that Erik would dearly love to win that race.  After all winning at Daytona has been something he has been trying to do since the days of the RW750.  He is disappointed that it has lost it’s international flavor and standing and has become unimportant on the international scene.  The ill-fated XBRR effort was inspired by the eagerness of dealers from 4 countries to jump on board.  I wonder if we might see a similar type of setup this time.   

 

Folks can whine about why a big twin gets to run against 600s but as far as I am concerned the rules are the rules.  Just like no one except the hardcore fans will understand or care about how much money Honda spends versus how Buell spends the same is true for displacements.  Winning is all that most folks will see or care about.

 

I do wonder just what Roger Edmundson has up his sleeve.  He has been know as a guy who puts on a very good race meeting, he is the guy who brought he CCS to it’s glory, so I have to think he has a pretty good plan to turn AMA racing around.  The current state of the sport is dismal.  Very few spectators, weak fields and pretty boring races mean that there has to be a pretty good upside to the sport.

 

Dave