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P26 IN THE WIND suspension, brakes, electronics." But what about lap times, and the true difference that slicks make over DOT tires and then the power a full Superbike spec makes over a stocker? "It depends at which racetrack and which tires, but normally I normally another seven tenths, or maybe one second. This is what we have been seeing at the moment. These numbers cannot be used all the time because it depends on the race track itself, and many other things." Gordon Ritchie NO ROAD ATLANTA FOR 2013 1 PowerSports, the company that promoted AMA Superbike events at Road Atlanta, Homestead Miami Speedway and NOLA Motorsports Park, confirmed on Friday that it would not be promoting events in 2013. Instead the company will focus efforts this year on bolstering AMA Pro Road Racing's television broadcast arrangement on CBS Sports Network and working with other promoters and racetracks on sales and promotions for their respective events. It is also gearing up to promote races again in 2014 with Road Atlanta and NOLA Motorsports Park as the most likely venues. With its successful background in promoting past World and AMA Superbike events, M1 PowerSports was viewed as a potential savior to the beleaguered AMA Pro Road Racing Series. While all three of M1's events last year were generally considered among the best-promoted races in the series, the races as a whole lost money. Additionally M1 PowerSports main financial backer Jeremy La- Cameron Gray has confirmed that Road Atlanta will not be on the AMA Superbike schedule in 2013, but he's hopeful of having a race there in 2014. Trasse, of Twitter fame, decided to back away from the partnership with M1, although he still sponsors the Roadrace Factory Red Bull team. Cameron Gray, CEO of M1 PowerSports, said they were hoping to get a Road Atlanta date done for this year, but were unable to negotiate a date this late in the season. AMA Pro Racing also issued an updated 2013 road-racing schedule on Friday, May 24, removing a previously announced TBA date sometime in August or September. It appears after talking with Gray, that the possible TBA was to be Road Atlanta. "Road Atlanta was a great success," Gray said of last year's event. "It was great working with the track staff there. We're bummed that we're not going back. Last year we had 75 vendors and overall it went fantastic. Even up to the last couple of weeks we tried to keep a date open, but it just got too late in the game. We can't ask a track to keep a date open indefinitely and one of the issues we ran into this year was with a lot of the sponsors I go after, a big selling point is the TV package and everything just came together too late. continued on page 28 PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREA WILSON M would have to say an SC2 DOT tire, like they use in Superstock, or a medium slick, like an SC1 [softer but not the softest], you can say the difference is around 1.5 seconds," Marinelli said. "Then when you move from the stock bike into a Superbike it is