Chirpy
03-07-2004, 12:32 AM
Time to flood the email boxes of Scott Hollingsworth, Chief Executive Officer for AMA Pro Racing as well as Merrill Vanderslice, Director of Competition for same.
I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen the Daytona 200 yet, but the AMA has an "issue" on it's hands.
Daryl
shollingsworth@amaproracing.com & mvanderslice@amaproracing.com
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Gentleman,
Aaron Yates has stepped over the line, and is bringing the unsportsmanlike conduct of the WWE and NBA to AMA Superbike. Actually, the NBA wouldn't even stand for that behavior.
I've watched the incident over and over again on TiVo. A bad pass on his part has him taking out an innocent party. Okay, that's racing. But for him to then start delivering kicks and head butts is simply inexcusable. First, it was Aaron's fault! Second, we don't need fights at the edge of the track. This is inexcusable at a club level, will it fly in the AMA?
At least the similar problems in SuperCross are on the track, this after the crash action is absolutely beyond the pale. It's time to get this under control, and insure that unsportsmanlike conduct will not be tolerated.
Continued leniency with Mr. Yates will do you no good. He should have been fined or suspended last year for his little "lay in the track" stunt trying to get a red flag. You let him get away with that, and now you have him kangaroo kicking competitors that he runs over. Stop it now, before he kills someone.
I fully support Anthony Fania Jr.'s pressing charges, as this is what it took to get violence in hockey under control.
Swift sure action can send a message that acting like a drunken sailor has no place in AMA roadracing. Suspend him for two rounds, if not the season. Actually, you should pull his AMA license, but I know the AMA doesn't have the cajones for that. That's why the total AMA viewership is a rounding error for NASCAR. That sanctioning body, by the way, would already have issued punishment.
Daryl Tschoepe
AMA Member 5068416
I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen the Daytona 200 yet, but the AMA has an "issue" on it's hands.
Daryl
shollingsworth@amaproracing.com & mvanderslice@amaproracing.com
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Gentleman,
Aaron Yates has stepped over the line, and is bringing the unsportsmanlike conduct of the WWE and NBA to AMA Superbike. Actually, the NBA wouldn't even stand for that behavior.
I've watched the incident over and over again on TiVo. A bad pass on his part has him taking out an innocent party. Okay, that's racing. But for him to then start delivering kicks and head butts is simply inexcusable. First, it was Aaron's fault! Second, we don't need fights at the edge of the track. This is inexcusable at a club level, will it fly in the AMA?
At least the similar problems in SuperCross are on the track, this after the crash action is absolutely beyond the pale. It's time to get this under control, and insure that unsportsmanlike conduct will not be tolerated.
Continued leniency with Mr. Yates will do you no good. He should have been fined or suspended last year for his little "lay in the track" stunt trying to get a red flag. You let him get away with that, and now you have him kangaroo kicking competitors that he runs over. Stop it now, before he kills someone.
I fully support Anthony Fania Jr.'s pressing charges, as this is what it took to get violence in hockey under control.
Swift sure action can send a message that acting like a drunken sailor has no place in AMA roadracing. Suspend him for two rounds, if not the season. Actually, you should pull his AMA license, but I know the AMA doesn't have the cajones for that. That's why the total AMA viewership is a rounding error for NASCAR. That sanctioning body, by the way, would already have issued punishment.
Daryl Tschoepe
AMA Member 5068416