While watching coverage of the AMA Supersport race at Daytona I began to realize just how crappy that course is. I know people talk, talk, talk about the banking but who really gives a damn? The track looks like an MSF course set up in the parking lot of a local high school. You can see the tar filled cracks all over the place, the cones directing the racers, and the guardrails at every corner. It's simply nothing short of HALF-ASSED. Why can't the motorcycle establishment in this country just get it together and help create or at least renovate a group of road course tracks worthy of having an AMA National event? Did anyone watch the corner workers' mad dash to get Danny Eslick's bike off the tarmac as the second wave of Supersport bikes rounded the corner? Did you see the guy drop the bike and then tumble to the ground like a drunken fool? It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Daytona is a joke. It's a mere skidmark of what it used to be. A great part of the world takes motorcycle racing seriously and is willing and able to build safe, beautiful and interesting road courses. At least the AMA boys are off to a purpose built racetrack at Barber (albeit a track without an actual straightaway). Then off to Fontana for another parking lot event, California style. And yes, they have banking too! BFD.
After that we're off to Sears point which consists of another ridiculous go-kart track layout with lots of useless turns and no straight. Thank god for Road America.
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