This could be the "shot heard 'round the world", if by "shot" you mean "press release" and if by "'round the world" you mean the American motorcycle industry. In any case, American Honda has pulled it's representative from the AMA Board of Directors, ending a 30-year-span of continuous membership on the sanctioning body's board. Here's the press release, courtesy Racer X Online.
What does this mean for the sport of motocross? In the release, Honda maintains that it will continue participating in AMA competition and that it will continue to hold it's corporate membership with the organization. But there's no question that the door just swung wide open for another sanctioning body to step up to the plate. The AMA's strongest point, with regards to professional motorcycle competition in this country, has been the fact that most of the major Japanese OEMs sat on it's board of directors. Now that Honda has bailed, who's next? And if they all abandon the (maybe not quite sinking, but certainly listing) ship, look for a bunch of new racing series to spring up out of nowhere.
I think it's time for a change anyway, so I am looking forward to what happens next.
1 comment:
me too. the ama never has given much back to the riders anyways.
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