Daytona 200 Superbike return!

[slayer61]

According to superbike planet the Superbikes are returning to the World famous Daytona 200!
Here it is!

http://superbikeplanet.com/2014/Feb/140210dmg.htm

 

[steve murdoch]

Great that the big bikes[1200cc limit?] will be back racing at Daytona but i wonder how many teams/companies would want to spend large amounts of money for a one-off race.

Funny how the 200 miler is now considered an endurance race.

How about the Vintage Superbikes as a support race to the modern bikes.

 

[Wester Cooley]

Yea, but they are going to race on that Mickey Mouse 2.91 mile road course layout. That course does not use the NASCAR Turn 1 and 2 banking nor the fast lefthand infield sweeper. That infield sweeper used to separate the men from the boys!!!

When they go back to racing on the real 3.81 mile Daytona road course it might be like the Daytona 200's of old. Glad I was around for the heydays of the Daytona 200 in the 70's and 80's.

 

[Big T]

Great that the big bikes[1200cc limit?] will be back racing at Daytona but i wonder how many teams/companies would want to spend large amounts of money for a one-off race.

Funny how the 200 miler is now considered an endurance race.

How about the Vintage Superbikes as a support race to the modern bikes.

The Vintage races don't run during Bike Week any more.

The AMA Pro racing will probably go bankrupt by 2015

No TV deal, 5 races, sponsors will flee the series


The series sponsor already left

 

[Joe Nardy]

Yea, but they are going to race on that Mickey Mouse 2.91 mile road course layout. That course does not use the NASCAR Turn 1 and 2 banking nor the fast lefthand infield sweeper. That infield sweeper used to separate the men from the boys!!!

When they go back to racing on the real 3.81 mile Daytona road course it might be like the Daytona 200's of old. Glad I was around for the heydays of the Daytona 200 in the 70's and 80's.

Amen, Brother!

I agree with Big T, AMA racing is on its last legs.

Joe

 

[Wallowgreen]

I agree with Big T, AMA racing is on its last legs.

Very sad to be sure! Like Big T said, only 5 races and nothing close to the west coast. Thought they might have made the effort to support WSB at Laguna in July!

Last time they were there with MotoGP I got talking with Larry Pegram for a while, nice guy. Talked even longer with his mum Mary, she was cooking pork on the grill at the time.

 

[RichDesmond]

Yea, but they are going to race on that Mickey Mouse 2.91 mile road course layout. That course does not use the NASCAR Turn 1 and 2 banking nor the fast lefthand infield sweeper. That infield sweeper used to separate the men from the boys!!!

When they go back to racing on the real 3.81 mile Daytona road course it might be like the Daytona 200's of old. Glad I was around for the heydays of the Daytona 200 in the 70's and 80's.

The banking's no great loss, but that lefthand kink would make your eyes get real big.

Actually, if you leave the history aside it's a crazy place to hold a MC race. It's kind of a nothing track and two of the three years I went for the CCS races someone died.