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I look and couldn't find a thread so I'll post the question.
Why do local series give a series championship to the "Beginner" class? I see kids in 250 beginner scrubbing jumps and lap times are not far off the winning Novice riders. They need to move up but they want that Championship at the end of the year. Like MxSports did with there Beginner Class, there should be NO championship for beginners. What do y'all think and do they carry points for beginners at your local races?
Why do local series give a series championship to the "Beginner" class? I see kids in 250 beginner scrubbing jumps and lap times are not far off the winning Novice riders. They need to move up but they want that Championship at the end of the year. Like MxSports did with there Beginner Class, there should be NO championship for beginners. What do y'all think and do they carry points for beginners at your local races?
A, B and C classes only
The Shop
Sand bagging knows no age!
B=Intermediate
C=Novice
D=Beginner
Pit Row
My son has been racing since 2008 and started on a 65 and the above is how we have approached it with him. He is now on a 250F in the "C" class. We tried to qualify for Loretta's and made it to the regional and that was it. So, we will probably be in the "C" class again. It is the nature of the way things work at the local level and then trying to make it to Loretta's. Like everyone knows you might be a top rider in your class at the local level but once you start to do the bigger races you find that you are not as good as you think you are.
Sand bagging does nothing but hold a rider back that is doing it in my opinion. If you want to get faster you have to ride with faster riders......
That is a correct statement. I was a sandbagger, and never even became a good C rider. The only one to blame was myself.
As soon as you get 12 points in the c class you get moved up for the next season (unless you are dominantly winning races they will move you up mid season) and as soon as you get 30 points in the b class you get moved up to A for the following season.
It works good.
That RULE already exists with the AMA. I'll try and find the EXACT ruling, but it's basically a 2 year "On ANY size" motorcycle and you have to ride the B class on a big bike, unless you ride schoolboy or college boy.
EXAMPLE- My son moved from an 85 (12-13 class) to a 125 in 2003. He was pretty fast and had been winning a lot of local races, but was well off the top 10 pace of the Amateur Nationals. After riding the 125 for maybe 2 months, mostly schoolboy and also a few NOVICE races, we signed up to race Lake Whitney as a NOVICE. He had been winning most of the NOVICE races and also beating some of the INT ( class kids in the schoolboy at the LOCAL LEVEL. After buying Plane tickets for 4 and committing to paying for my bikes and gear, etc to be driven with a few others who were driving up, I received a call from AMA, (3 days before I was scheduled to fly out) stating that my son was ineligible to race the NOVICE (C) class. He was only 12 and wasn't sandbagging, he wouldn't have won and would've been in the way in the B class at that race. I lost some money on that deal.....
His (Ryan Holiday from AMA) explanation was that someone had called and brought to his attention that my son had been racing for several years and shouldn't be allowed to race the C class. At least he actually called me before we got there and weren't allowed to race. That happened to several riders that year, between a few of the AMA Amateur National races.
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