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F6. Riders that participate in a higher-level at any AMA or NON-AMA track will be considered as advanced to that classification.
Exception: Youth A can drop to regular B until:
F11. No rider, youth or amateur, can be forced to compete in the A class until January 1 following their 16th birthday. Riders under 16 years old may advance on their own ability/competence.
So this means any rider who races youth A and is 16 as of Jan. 1 can NOT drop down to B for LL National. At the area qualifier we were told this rule would not be inforced. That just is not right! There is aleast 3 riders going to the regional that have broken this rule. Here is where NEMA becomes involved. Two of the riders are sons of NEMA board members! Isn't that nice. I was told one of the riders parents called MXSports and explained that NEMAs A class is an amateur class not an expert class (BULLSH*T) and mxsports bought it. The problem Both of these NEMA riders had raced the A class at theNew England Regional at Winchester last year. I would think that makes them an A rider. NEMA Board members manipulate events to favor their kids. Once we were told by a NEMA ref that we had to duct tape our brand new backgrounds, because of color, only to find when we took our gate that that refs son had the wrong color background, but that was ok.
In closing this sums up what kind of people are running NEMA.
Pardon me if I am wrong, but what did NEMA have to do with the LL qualifier at Winchester? I am not sure how DC and LL got thrown into this but I think the double weekend at Winchester was a different event. I could be wrong though.
I have no knowledge of NEMA and how they work so anyways, if this is happening, sad to see it like this. Hope for the best for both parties.
Kids.
It can mean the world to them.
Pit Row
RON ROSSI
125C 12-15 - Class Finish Positions Points for this class 2010 Spring Series 2010 Overall Series
Overall Nbr Name Moto 1 Moto 2 Points Earned
1st #303x ANTHONY SMITH - KAW
E. SANDWICH, MA 3rd 1st 95
2nd #75 DANIEL ADAMITSKIY - KAW
NEWINGTON, CT 2nd 3rd 92
3rd #138x BRANDON DAVIS - KAW
EAST BRIDGEWATER, MA 4th 2nd 90
4th #759 RILEY GREENE - YAM
JAMESTOWN, RI 5th 4th 85
5th #665 ZACHERY NOBREGA - KAW
TIVERTON, RI 8th 5th 81
6th #95 MARLA PHELPS - KAW
W SUFFIELD, CT 9th 6th 79
7th #226 RYAN FLETCHER - SUZ
PLAINFIELD, CT 7th 11th 76
8th #110 BRODIE MCCLAIN - YAM
GLASTONBURY, CT 12th 9th 74
9th #36 BILLY MULLEN - HON
TRUMBULL, CT 16th 7th 72
10th #409 NICHOLAS VONA - HON
BELCHERTOWN, MA 15th 8th 72
11th #78x BLAKE OVITT - KAW
ASHLEY FALLS, MA 1st 24th 73
12th #224 DANIEL CAVANNA - SUZ
S. GLASTONBURRY, CT 14th 12th 69
13th #611 NICHOLAS MASTRANGELO - KAW
GLASTONBURY, CT 10th 16th 31
14th #507 KODEY WHITE - KTM
PITTSFIELD, MA 11th 17th 67
15th #407 SHAWN BRESNAHAN - SUZ
BELCHERTOWN, MA 6th 25th 63
16th #40 NATHAN SLADER - KAW
FOSTER, RI 19th 14th 62
17th #756x BRANDON LEMAIRE - HON
ADAMS, MA 18th 15th 62
18th #114x JACOB TAVANTO - KAW
UXBRIDGE, MA 17th 18th 60
19th #622 RYAN HOLLIS - KTM
SAUGUS, MA 28th 10th 57
20th #299x ANDREW MCMANN - HON
LEOUGH, ME 26th 13th 56
21st #124 NICKOLAS TAUSCHER - KAW
HOLYOKE, MA 22nd 19th 54
22nd #120 RYAN COVILLE - KAW
BROWNSFIELD, ME 13th 28th 54
23rd #387x KEVIN WHITE - KAW
ELLINGTON, CT 21st 21st 53
24th #891 TYLER JABAUT - YAM
E.HAVEN, CT 20th 22nd 53
25th #707 GIANNA GABRIELLA - SUZ
AUBURN, MA 24th 20th 51
26th #614 RYAN PAYNE - YAM
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA 23rd 23rd 49
27th #14x ROBBIE BOMBARD - YAM
SOUTHWICK, MA 25th 26th 44
28th #250 BRANT HALL - KAW
RUMFORD, RI 27th 27th 41
DNS #595 ALEX SMALLWOOD - HON
SCOTLAND, CT DNS DNS 0
Don't get me wrong, I know the joy a trophy can bring as I was once in the same situation. I was DQ'd and docked multiple times for similar situations and truly believe I am a better person now because of them. I know how easy it is to get caught up in the trap of letting my emotions and satisfaction depend on the hardware brought back from the motocross track. However after being screwed multiple times, often accompanied by tears and screaming parents, I was able to find a much more dependable source of satisfaction; being proud of the way I rode.
The original post in this thread really brought me back to when I was in the same situations. What have I learned since then? I've learned that racing organizations are all ran by a group of "good-ol-boys" that will do anything and everything in their power to make themselves or their kids look good. It's nearly impossible to find justice in situations like these and this is something that will always be prevalent in our sport.
If I could give one piece of advice to the kid who was screwed out of what he earned, it would be to take that frustration and use it as motivation to come back the next week and show them all who's the man, AGAIN.
If I could give one piece of advice to his father it would be to swallow his pride for the time being and focus on things that can be controlled, like keeping his son's spirits high. By helping him recognize that what was more important on that day than the little piece of plastic that was denied to him is a simple fact, HE WAS THE MAN that day and it took good-ol-boy politics to try and negate that. Often times causing waves in the pool by making a big deal out of situations like these does more harm than good as it puts a biiiig target on your back.
I have one comment or maybe suggestion. If you look at the NEMA membership and where the majority come from, it appears as if it's CT, RI and Southern MA. Isn't NEMA taking a beating when they have races in Maine, and Hickory Hill. Wouldn't NEMA benefit from a a few southern NY tracks like Claverack, Walden or Southwoods?
Also it would be nice if the riders from the Winchester orginization were allowed to win contingency money when they win fair and square.
Just an opinion, not looking to get into one of these VitalStyleArguments...had a great weekend riding and feeling good braaaaaaaap!!
I actually met the original poster of this thread this weekend! Small world...
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