I'm curious if anyone has heard any rumors or has any speculation or even just a wish-list for future racing.

It seems likely that a real racing program is a very expensive luxury at this point and we won't see a real organized effort for the next several years.

Will Splitlath continue? Will they expand into something like British Superbike or MotoAmerica?

MotoAmerica would seem the logical place for EBR to be racing in the near future, and I'd like to see them racing there in some kind of organized way within the next few years.

I'm wondering (since the almost certainly won't be racing as a factory team in MotoAmerica ) if it might be worth creating a SERIOUS contingency program.

For example:


Superbike Superstock
1st $25,000 $5,000
2nd $15,000 $4,000
3rd $10,000 $3,000
4th $5,000 $500
5th $2,000 $250
10th-6th $1,000 $100


With approximately 20 races (10 rounds with 2 races per round), if someone ran the table, that would cost them $500,000. Which is a lot of money, but if someone really ran the table on an EBR, how many bike sales would that translate to? I'd think the resulting publicity would be enough to justify the cost.

And since riders would be much more likely to collect the smaller prizes, I think the overall cost/publicity ratio would be fairly low.

If someone ends up getting 20 fourth places in Superstock (probably much more likely than the above), that would still be good (not great) publicity and only cost EBR $10,000. And if they sneaked on to a couple podiums in there, it would be worth the extra.

With a contingency plan like that, I'd think that some riders and teams who were on the fence regarding what bike to run might take a shot with EBR.

There seem to be a good number of EBR riders currently racing at the club level, and I'd like to also see them support those riders so they can build from the ground up. I'd like to see some sort of organized group that includes all EBR racers that would give those riders a link to talk directly to EBR engineers (there may well be some sort of informal program in place). Not only would that help and encourage the racers, but it would also provide valuable feedback to EBR.

So what does everybody else think about what they will be doing and what they should be doing regarding racing in the coming years?