INTERVIEW
WAYNE RAINEY
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Seca] called me and said the
same thing. That's a long answer
to your question.
Let's get into some of the
meat and potatoes of this: You
recently met with a technical
panel that you put together to
discuss rules. How far along
are you in regard to a rules
package and classes. How dif-
ferent will it be to what we cur-
rently have?
We just met last week. Re-
member, we've only been in
business 21 days today. We have
been working on this for many,
many months and many times
we thought we were close only
to have some hiccup happen.
And there were many of them -
and probably none I could ever
talk about. So until it finally hap-
pened, on September 3, we
couldn't talk to racetracks or do
anything before that. We just had
ideas. So when it did happen, it
was so late that a lot of the ideas
we had in March were not going
to work for where we were with
the late announcement. On the
rules package, I always thought
that if we were going to move the
U.S. more closer to what the rest
of the world is doing and be able
to compete at the world stage
when we do have the opportuni-
ties, be it MotoGP, Moto2, Moto3
or the World Superbike Cham-
pionship, we have to be more
in line with what the rest of the
world is doing. The bikes now,
especially the Superbikes, are
so good from the showroom floor
that there's not a whole lot you
have to do to make them com-
petitive. So getting our rules in
line with the rest of the world was
what that meeting was about.
We need to be able to compete
against the best guys when they
come to America. When we do
get a shot our guys are prepared,
they know the bikes, they know
the tires and they know what the
electronics packages, etc. have
to be. So it's not like they have
to go out and learn a new circuit,
tires and the machine and then
Rainey wants to
bring American
racers back to the
forefront in the World
Championships.
