I have to agree to disagree with you on that one. People are interested in RACING not the parading the sport has become. The races in superbike have been boring at the front and scrappy mid pack, CBS did a much better job of capturing that this year than in the past. You can't run Motorcycle racing like NASCAR, the fans and the sport and the experience at the races are too different. This is the mistake AMA seems to keep making. hmm only 1125r in CMRA, I've see you race, aren't you the points leader for heavy twins novice?
I wouldn't argue that point at all, but I think it could be more popular with the right management and promotion. The new TV package was a huge step in the right direction but the lack of coverage of the last round was a screw-up of epic proportions.
IF they could have 12 solid rounds and IF they had live coverage (plus replays through the week) of each of those rounds and IF MJ and EBR stayed , I think they could begin to build enough of an audience from the millions of riders in this country (and people who don't ride but would enjoy it if they watched a few rounds). And if the audience could grow some, more sponsorship dollars would come in and I believe it would be sustainable.
Unfortunately we already know that most of those things won't happen. EBR and MJ are done. They're struggling to find venues and we have no guarantee some venues won't, again, screw up the coverage.
I live in Jersey and the Jersey round is crazy popular. I honestly have no idea why and I frankly suspect the AMA management doesn't know why, but it just shows the potential is there.
But the series has been poorly managed since long before DMG, so it's not surprising it's never really gotten going.
Anyone else find it odd that we haven't heard of any reports of EBR testing anywhere? Sykes has been testing for two days straight.
I will be riding with STT on Sunday at Road Atlanta also, I keep and eye out for any other EBR riders ;-)
Talked with Geoff at RA, he was there with his 2012 B bike with a stock RS engine, doing some durability testing. While STT has some fast riders, some AMA pros, Geoff was flying around RA, damn he is FAST!!