Ricky Got His Points Back (sx)

[Jeffksf]

The AMA announced that they revised the penalty for the leaded fuel test incident with team Suzuki. They fined Suzuki $20,000 instead.
RC now sits in 2nd just 6 pts. behind Reed.

Now we can get back to watching a great series:D

[ShiftFMX]

Thats good to know that he didnt get shafted for somthing he had no control over.

Where did you read about this??

[Punk'd]

Sweet:)

[Jeffksf]

March 03, 2006


AMA/FIM Reach Resolution on Carmichael Penalty
- press release -

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (March 3, 2006) --The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) and the Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) have announced a joint resolution to the points penalty imposed by the AMA on Ricky Carmichael following the February 11 San Diego round of the AMA Supercross Series and the FIM World Supercross GP.

In a post-race tech inspection, the fuel in Carmichael's motorcycle was found to contain more lead than allowed under a standard jointly adopted by both sanctioning bodies beginning with the 2004 racing season.

The AMA has enforced that fuel regulation in its AMA Supercross Series and AMA Motocross Championship for the past two years. However, this is the first time that testing has revealed a fuel violation affecting a competitor entered in both the AMA and FIM series, and while the fuel standard is the same in both rule books, the two sanctioning bodies call for different testing protocols.

The AMA initiated an investigation into the fuel requirement and testing protocols. It then became apparent that this difference in testing protocols would make consistent enforcement of this standard difficult, and the two sanctioning bodies have agreed to cooperate in the investigation, with the goal of creating a unified unleaded fuel standard and testing protocol for the 2007 season.

Meanwhile, the AMA and the FIM jointly agreed that, because of the disparity in testing protocols, a points penalty would be inappropriate in this case. As a result, the AMA has rescinded the 25-point penalty imposed on Carmichael in the AMA Supercross Series standings, and the FIM has said that it will not impose a points penalty in the World Supercross GP standings.

Both sanctioning bodies agreed, however, that a penalty is still appropriate for this fuel violation, and the decision was made to impose a $20,000 fine on the Suzuki team for which Carmichael rides. The AMA and the FIM will equitably donate the fine to the Asterisk Mobile Medical Center, which provides trackside medical support to riders at all AMA Supercross Series/FIM World Supercross GP series and AMA Motocross Championship events and to Riders for Health, a humanitarian organization working in Africa for 15 years reaching nearly 11 million people with regular health care workers riding motorcycles.

"It was clear that the differences in testing protocols raised serious problems for enforcement of this rule,'' said Steve Whitelock, AMA Motocross and Supercross Series manager.

"We think this is a fair and equitable resolution of a difficult situation" said Wolfgang Srb, President of the FIM Motocross Commission.

The AMA has announced that the fuel investigation will be conducted by the Southwest Research Institute's Fuel and Lubricant Lab, an independent consulting organization with nearly 60 years of experience. It is expected that teams as well as fuel suppliers, among others, will be interviewed in this process.

[400exrules]

nice! i was wonderin if they would do that since everyone was talking about how it was such a BS call....the announcers, the racers, everyone thought it was total BS.

[TheFontMaster]

Finaly they realized what a lame call that was. I'm glad he got the points back.

[coolex]

me 2

[zeppelin]

the ama has f'd up once again. not only should they not have docked ricky's points in the first place, but in the last 2 years (since Steve Whitelock has become the head guy) they have taken back almost every single one of the penalties they have handed out. pretty soon i doubt the riders will take the ama serious any more. whitelock has screwed everything up.

[TWISTED]

I'll bet Reed and Stewart were pissed. When they were both fined, they both appealed and lost. Kinda one way if you ask me, and I'm a Carmichael fan.

[BlueZ440]

YES...GO RC..

I know Reed and Bubba gots to be pissed off..:D

Originally posted by TWISTED
I'll bet Reed and Stewart were pissed. When they were both fined, they both appealed and lost. Kinda one way if you ask me, and I'm a Carmichael fan. Why? They were on 2 strokes and the leaded fuel gave them an advantage. Carmichael gained nothing. Two completely different scenarios.

The AMA has went downhill bigtime, and as far as quads go they could care less for the last twenty years. I'm glad to see this new race series and hope it takes off because I feel every dollar I give the AMA is a dollar wasted as sad as it is to say. As for Carmichael I think he'll take the series.

[antman]

i am glad they gave back his points because i doubt he knew thatany rule was being broken ... he probally just got on and rode the bike

[Guy400]

I just think this shows that the AMA needs to have officially sanctioned fuel that everyone shares at the track for the entire race weekend just like NASCAR does. This way there's no debate about the legality of the fuel. You walk over to the AMA fuel rig with an empty gas can and fill up with official, legal AMA fuel. If you fail testing after a race than it's been doctored and there's no questioning it. Why should any race team have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to test fuel that they buy in good faith from individual dealers? I'm not a RC fan but I believe they were honest and bought gas thinking it was legal. It's crap...

[Pappy]

great, its only $20k



i reckon they will just raise the price of the new LTR a few pennies


if i was carmicheal, id show up at the next race riding a beat 1986 rm250 , smoke out the field, flip them the bird at the finish line and moon the world on the podium.

[JRP]

Originally posted by Guy400
I just think this shows that the AMA needs to have officially sanctioned fuel that everyone shares at the track for the entire race weekend just like NASCAR does. This way there's no debate about the legality of the fuel. You walk over to the AMA fuel rig with an empty gas can and fill up with official, legal AMA fuel. If you fail testing after a race than it's been doctored and there's no questioning it. Why should any race team have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to test fuel that they buy in good faith from individual dealers? I'm not a RC fan but I believe they were honest and bought gas thinking it was legal. It's crap...


i agree 100%