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Will someone please rid me of my ignorance, why is the FIM involved in American Supercross and Motocross?? how did this happen?
https://books.google.com/books?id=_BMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=jam+mo…
Following the expulsion threat from the FIM to the AMA, and AMA Pro Racing's subsequent lawsuit against Clear Channel Entertainment - Motor Sports, Crash.net contacted the latter for comment.
Today, Clear Channel released the following statement responding to the AMA's allegations that they: "along with the FIM, are attempting to combine the AMA Supercross Series with smaller events in Europe and create a new series under the FIM banner."
AMA Pro Racing also accuses the SX series promoters of trying to 'dismantle' the championship and warned that 'outside meddling' would only weaken the AMA Supercross series.
The problem seems to stem from having both a World [FIM] and American [AMA] championship within one 17 round series - which both sides appear to have agreed to - with the dispute centring over who will control and run it.
The FIM wants control of the whole series, while the AMA wants to keep running the 15 American rounds that [together with the independent Daytona SX] make up the US SX series as it has done in the past...
The following statement was released by Ken Hudgens, Clear Channel Entertainment's vice president of marketing:
"Clear Channel Entertainment - Motor Sports is the promoter of the AMA Supercross Series and the THQ World Supercross GP Series of which the U.S. championship events are a part.
"AMA Pro Racing acknowledged and agreed to this 'series within a series' concept from the outset of our new contractual relationship with them last spring - in the contract itself, in our many discussions with them, and in their statements to the press.
"AMA Pro Racing apparently now has a dispute with the FIM, the international sanctioning body of which it is an affiliate, over whether AMA recognises FIM's ultimate authority over the conduct of motorcycle racing sanctioned by its affiliates when such events are part of a world championship.
"That is not Clear Channel Entertainment - Motor Sports' dispute, and it will have no effect on the upcoming supercross season, which kicks off in Geneva, Switzerland on December 7, 2002."
That goes for both series.. I really don't get it..
I still say FUQ the FIM...
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AMA Pro Racing should kick the FIM to the curb for the purposes of sanctioning domestic competition.
So did others.
Wouldn't they have had to stop him from racing?
Matthes talked about it on the pulp show. Something to do with not enough time to get the TUEs for the nationals so the lakewood results were thrown out.
Pit Row
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I don't remember which show it was, but ill go back to the archives and see if I can't find it and ill post it up.
The TUE thing was strange for the nationals since the testing was just being introduced weeks before the start of the nationals.
The USADA has released the results of the anti-doping testing that took place at the Thunder Valley National a few weeks back. All twelve of the riders tested—six in the 250 Class, six in the 450 Class—passed scrutiny. No penalties will be assessed based on the Thunder Valley tests.
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