[Warchild]

Those of you who belong to HSTA probably know the email list admin, Vic Norton. Vic is a retired Professor of Mathmatics at the Univ of Ohio. He posted this cool rant that I thought I'd share with ya.... http://www.sport-touring.net/iB_html...icons/rave.gif

Personally, I agree with Vic 100%, but I don't think the AMA will do anything that might possibly reduce the $$$-flow that extra racers bring in....

x-post from the HSTA list:

Quote SuperDodgeEmBike at Mid-Ohio
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So Jason Pridmore was a little high when he said that some of the
backmarkers at Mid-Ohio were '15 or 16 seconds off the pace.' Still, his
point is well taken. There were plenty of backmarkers for the leaders to
run into from lap ten on. (Mladin passed two backmarkers on lap ten of the
first race at Mid-Ohio.)

The AMA uses a 112% rule as its qualification criterion. You can qualify
for an AMA Superbike race if you can complete a qualifying lap within 112%
of the top qualifier. MotoGP and World Superbike use a 107% rule.

These percentages don't mean much to most people. But I am a mathematician;
let's write them in terms of laps. If a backmarker is lapping at 112% of
the leader's time, the backmarker is going to be passed every 112/12 = 9.33
laps by the leader. An analogous lap equivalent holds for the 107% rule: a
107% backmarker will be lapped every 107/7 = 15.29 laps.

At Mid-Ohio there were thirteen backmarkers who qualified at over 107%.
Eight of the thirteen were lapped by Mladin before the half-way point of
the race. One of them even made it to lap sixteen before getting passed.
Perhaps these backmarkers were racing against each other, but their main
purpose was to provide moving obstacles for Mladin and Roberts and Pridmore
and Duhamel and Bostrum and Yates and ...

Really, AMA Superbike racing should be renamed. It should be called
AMA SuperDodgeEmBike racing.


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Vic Norton
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mathematician and Motorcyclist

[luvtolean]

If you only want to watch 10 bikes go around...by all means, enact the rule.

[Heavy-Dee]

Is that Univ of Ohio, or Ohio University?

[DEPO]

Glad the guy does math.... His Grammatics Suck!