New Race series in 2010.. and no MA involvement.

[Strika]

professionalism and lower costs to riders

Not possible with TON

I was not pointing at one organisation or individual for this. More that increased competition forces people to either improve things or get left behind! Maybe competition will force MA to get their act together. (Not that I personally have any complaints about MA)

[MadKaw]

2010 Formula Xtreme Series Classes and Series Details Announced.
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We are please to be able to announce this early in the year the classes for the 2010 Australian Formula Xtreme Championship and the Australasian FX Superbike Championship series along with the structure of the series. This gives all competitors six months to plan and work towards next years racing, the calendar has already been released previously.

The race distances and number of laps will be released next week along with details of the number of races per round.

As I had eluded to previously the March to October 5 round AFXC series will run on the Sunday of the five events with a separate series running on the Saturday. This will be basically the same format that we tried out at the final round of this years FX-TT series. There will be one qualifying session per class each day and then race positions will be earned for race 2 onwards by the finishing order of the previous race and so on.

Having two rounds of separate series on the one weekend will allow competitors to compete in either a Saturday based series or a Sunday series or both series over the same weekend.
We believe this is a first for Australian racing and it gives a huge amount of flexibility for competitors and teams as if they have one bad day that doesn't impact on the other days series points and outcome.

There will be a separate non compulsory Friday open practise day prior to the first 5 event series.

The classes for all the series are planned at this time to be the same at all rounds, this includes the three round summer series. The major difference between the Formula Xtreme class and the FX Superbike class will be that at the summer day night series in December the premier class will need to fit a headlight and a tail light. This will make the bikes look very similar to World Endurance Championship bikes and will add another dimension to road racing in Australia. The rules will be changed to allow the fitting of headlights and a tail-light for the first AFXC series that kicks off at the end of March but will not be compulsory.

The summer three round December series will have at least two day/night rounds with the main day being on the Saturday with racing happening up to 8:30 pm in the evening. At this stage the Wakefield Park round will have a Saturday practise day and a normal Sunday race day with racing going to approximately 5:00 pm.

I can confirm at this stage that the Formula Xtreme class rules will remain basically the same for the third year in a row (the Formula Xtreme rules are basically the same as the later introduced Superstock 1000 class), the FX class will also now go under the name of FX1000.

For 2010 the main and newly named 600 class will adopt the new name of FX600 (the FX600 class shares very similar rules to Superstock 600). The FX600 class will be open to all grades rather then being restricted to C&D graders.

I can also say all classes in both series next year will be open to all grades of license holder and each grade will have its own pointscore and championship.

The other classes will be the FX400 class which obviously caters for the 400 fields and the FX-125GP class will also get a run as a championship class. The Formula OZ class will remain the same and open to all bikes. There will be a open capacity class for bikes over 850cc in the Formula Oz pointscore and a 600 cc 4 cylinder Formula OZ score for those competitors wanting to race their Supersport bikes in the series.

Pro-Twins will return in 2010 but with the long overdue changes of having both a F1 and F2 class, late model high performance sports bikes like the Ducati 848 will be eligible to compete in the F2 class so will a number of the older 1000cc V-twin sportsbikes that can no longer compete on an even playing field with the latest crop of 1198's and 1200 KTM's etc. Nakedbike will as in 2009 also compete in the combined Twins race. We will also be having a number of discussions with the BEARS club in the coming weeks regarding 2010. We would envisage that similar to 2009 if the BEARS compete in the series they will have a combined race with the Pro-Twins machines.

At this stage there is no plan to have Juniors at the 2010 series but will be looking at this in the coming weeks.

The classes for 2010 are;

Formula Xtreme FX1000 ...........................(similar to Superstock 1000)
Formula Oz..............................................(open to all bikes not catered for in the other classes, Superbike, Supersport etc)
FX600 ....................................................(similar to Superstock 600)
FX400.....................................................(open to 400 cc sports bikes)
FX-125GP................................................(open to 125 cc 2-stroke GP machines)
Pro-Twins F1 & F2 /Nakedbike...................(open to V-twin and triple cylinder sports bikes both F1 & F2 and Nakedbikes)

Again all classes in the 2010 Series will be open to all grades (A,B,C & D grade competitors) and they all will have their own series class grade championship.

Again in 2010 a number of classes will have limited numbers of control tyres for dry races, FX1000 and FX600 will have control treaded tyres, Pro-Twins and Nakedbike will have control slicks. If a race is declared wet then full wets will be allowed to be used in all classes and will not need to be brand specific.

Anyone wanting to find out further information or needs to ask any questions can contact myself on 0419 448 452 up to 7:00 pm at night or email me on admin@aus-superbikes.com.au.

Cheers,
Terry O'Neill