whatarush wrote
Awesome!!! This is great news.
Ya, I think so.
It's amazing how far that event has slipped in terms of stature.
Funny, last year, I called around trying to find out if they were gonna run or not.
The Covid thing had everything messed up.
And let me tell you guys, just finding someone that would pick the phone up was a chore.
Even the people at the permits office in The Town Of Daytona did not know what was up with that event.
After leaving a dozen or so messages, both phone and email, with everyone I thought might be even remotely connected, a guy from ASRA actually called me back. Granted, it took a week, I had almost forgotten I had even left a message, but hey, they called.
I was told it was they, their organization that actually provided the flagging, scoring and hardware needed to run the 200. And that they kinda did it as a favor, to DMG, mainly because they were running an event in their series right around that time anyway. And that the whole sheebang relied on vendors being able to rent spaces to sell stuff. Which they couldn't do because the Town Of Daytona didn't know if they wanted to grant the permits for them to do so. Because of the number of people and the Covid thing.
Well, we talked for awhile, me and the guy from ASRA.
Said he had only been into bikes for a few years, and yeah, had heard a The 200 used to be a pretty big deal. And that there were somewhere around 40 teams, or people, that had shipped bikes that were sitting in storage all around Daytona. Hopeing they were gonna run. From as far as Europe and South America. And that The AMA or The FIM had nothing to do with the event at all.
I was incredulous, and thought wtf is going on?
Anyways, it's great the guys at ASRA helped to keep it going, and great that now a national promoter has stepped up. Who knows, a few years, they figure out how to keep a Superbikes rear tire from exploding on the banks, that place just could become a part of our National Championship.
And boy, wouldn't that be cool.......
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