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Jossik · **Roadracing in general -** 11.07.2008, 17:32

Lost In Space 2009
With No Contracts Yet, It's "Danger, Will Robinson"

For A Lot Of Ridersby dean adamsWednesday, July 02, 2008Factory riders here in the US are paid well for their services. If you can use your talent on a motorcycle to win races, or contend for wins in some cases, you will cash very large checks.
It has often been said that Suzuki's payroll for just Mat Mladin and Ben Spies is larger than the payroll of the entire World Superbike grid. Mat Mladin, the last time he won the US Superbike championship, made between four and six million dollars in total compensation--not all of it from Suzuki of course, but a great deal of it.
And while compensation for some of the paid-to-wear-leathers set seems to have dropped over the last few years as bike sales have slowed, riders are still making money that would get noticed by a mid-level hedge fund manager. Especially if you can deliver: Erion Honda's Josh Hayes confessed on a Soupkast last December that he's made over a million dollars in Honda championship bonus money in the last few years. Miguel DuHamel made over a half a million dollars in one day at Road Atlanta just a few years ago.
Those numbers aside, the coming off-season is going to be very interesting to watch. A number of riders do not have factory contracts for 2009. Those include Tommy Hayden, Eric Bostrom, Jason DiSalvo, Ben Spies, Miguel DuHamel, Aaron Yates and several others.
Being a factory rider means you can walk to your mailbox once a month and get a check with an awful lot of zeros on it for your trouble. But if the factories aren't racing or the dynamics of the series change then one can only wonder who will have contracts and who will have a lot of free time on their hands.
Potential loss in income aside, an unbelievable number of riders are exploring WSBK and World Supersport rides for 2009.

Well,it's not roadracing but it's the start of traction control :-)

(For those who don't know, Will Robinson is the boy!)

HelenMW · 12.07.2008, 12:44

Mmmm....I hate to be a pedant but I was expecting this thread to be about road racing i.e. races that actually take place on roads as opposed to tracks, such as the Isle of Man TT

Jossik · 12.07.2008, 13:37

No problem, Helen, being penant. For those who do not know the definition of "roadracing," it is the name of the sport of racing bikes around a non-oval asphalt track with many left and right turns and elevation changes. Your example of the Isle of Man is a form of roadracing. "Roadracing" started on paved public streets.

HelenMW · 12.07.2008, 15:09

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Originally Posted by Jossik

No problem, Helen, being penant. For those who do not know the definition of "roadracing," it is the name of the sport of racing bikes around a non-oval asphalt track with many left and right turns and elevation changes. Your example of the Isle of Man is a form of roadracing. "Roadracing" started on paved public streets.

Yeah, I knew that, but being Irish where around 90% of all racing is on roads it is what I am conditioned to expect.

I've never really felt that it was right to call track racing roadracing but, well, I don't make the rules......I just stand on the side line and criticise

Jossik · 12.07.2008, 17:27

Helen, please tell more. Do communities set up racing days? Are there requirements for the type of bikes? What you write is interesting

HelenMW · 12.07.2008, 20:01

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Helen, please tell more. Do communities set up racing days? Are there requirements for the type of bikes? What you write is interesting

Mmm....are you taking the mickey now

Anyway, this site is for racing in the Republic of Ireland Motor Cycling Ireland you will see that in Ireland road racing and circuit racing are classified separately, even when they are both part of the same championship, which is why I made my original comment.

And this is the site for Northern Ireland which lumps the road and circuits races together RealRoadRacing.Com

Jossik · 12.07.2008, 20:19

I never heard this phrase before. I had to look it up.

Take the Mickey
Meaning
Tease or make fun of.

No. I was just trying to expand on the topic of the thread.

I will ask the mods to close this thread. It got off to a bad start.

HelenMW · 12.07.2008, 20:35

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Originally Posted by Jossik

I never heard this phrase before. I had to look it up.

Take the Mickey
Meaning
Tease or make fun of.

No. I was just trying to expand on the topic of the thread.

I will ask the mods to close this thread. It got off to a bad start.

That might be for the best....look, I wasn't trying to be offensive and I don't think you were either....it's just that we obviously both have a completely different idea of what road racing means...let's not fall out over it

Jossik · **(Revised) :-) Motorbike Racing In General -** 12.07.2008, 22:40

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let's not fall out over it

HelenMW · 13.07.2008, 20:37

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Great idea, surely no-one can misunderstand it now!