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World Superbike
AMA SBK: Broke! - One Bike To Rule Them All
The one-bike rule has quickly come into favor in championships all over the globe. There may be no series that could benefit more from it than AMA Pro Superbike.
(Photo: Evan Williams)
The Laguna Seca victories of MotoGP ace Casey Stoner and AMA Pro Superbike star Tommy Hayden shared more in common than just their stalking methods of success. Both wins were also the end result of crafty two-bike set-up management in the lead-up to the races.
Stoner, unhappy with his qualifying RC212V's race pace, tried two entirely new set-ups in the Sunday warm-up, ultimately settling on one that allowed him to claim the checkered flag later that day.
Meanwhile, Hayden and his crew pushed his 'A' bike and 'B' bike in two separate directions during qualifying before assembling all that was learned into a hybrid package that he rode to victory in Sunday's race.
And remember Josh Hayes' Saturday triumph at Infineon Raceway earlier this season, the one that came on his 'B' R1? Recall that he hadn't even thrown a leg over that particular racebike prior to the contest but was forced upon it after his primary racer was damaged in a late-qualifying crash.
If the motorcycle racing world's latest cost-cutting trend sweeps its way Stateside, those sorts of victories will become a thing of the past.
And, on the whole, that would likely prove to be an overwhelmingly positive step forward for the series.
AMA Pro Road Racing has been at the forefront of devising more economic and competitively level Superbike racing, primarily via its tightly restricted, homologation-based rules structure.
The early returns have been more than simply promising; they have been remarkable. The racing is closer and less predictable than ever before and AMA Pro Superbike is arguably the most exciting major motorcycle roadracing series on track anywhere in the world these days.
However, significant problems still exist. Even the reined-in regulations remain too expensive for the bulk of the teams that sacrifice all just to make it to the track each race weekend. And the grids remain embarrassing sparse, frequently totaling fewer than 20 riders.
Stoner, unhappy with his qualifying RC212V's race pace, tried two entirely new set-ups in the Sunday warm-up, ultimately settling on one that allowed him to claim the checkered flag later that day.
Meanwhile, Hayden and his crew pushed his 'A' bike and 'B' bike in two separate directions during qualifying before assembling all that was learned into a hybrid package that he rode to victory in Sunday's race.
And remember Josh Hayes' Saturday triumph at Infineon Raceway earlier this season, the one that came on his 'B' R1? Recall that he hadn't even thrown a leg over that particular racebike prior to the contest but was forced upon it after his primary racer was damaged in a late-qualifying crash.
If the motorcycle racing world's latest cost-cutting trend sweeps its way Stateside, those sorts of victories will become a thing of the past.
And, on the whole, that would likely prove to be an overwhelmingly positive step forward for the series.
AMA Pro Road Racing has been at the forefront of devising more economic and competitively level Superbike racing, primarily via its tightly restricted, homologation-based rules structure.
The early returns have been more than simply promising; they have been remarkable. The racing is closer and less predictable than ever before and AMA Pro Superbike is arguably the most exciting major motorcycle roadracing series on track anywhere in the world these days.
However, significant problems still exist. Even the reined-in regulations remain too expensive for the bulk of the teams that sacrifice all just to make it to the track each race weekend. And the grids remain embarrassing sparse, frequently totaling fewer than 20 riders.
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