Reliable industry sources say that the Championship Cup Series (CCS) will be restructured in 2006 and the F-USA Series as it currently exists will disappear, replaced with American Sport Bike Assn. (ASBA) classes run in conjunction with CCS classes at selected events. The giant Supercross-promoting company now known as Clear Channel Entertainment Motor Sports, promised six years ago to become the premier promoter of National motorcycle races in the U.S. But the company now plans to license CCS to Director of Operations Kevin Elliott, who is forming his own company. Clear Channel Entertainment Motor Sports had been attempting to sell CCS for between $600,000 and $800,000 earlier this year. CCS was founded by Roger Edmondson in 1983 after he left the employ of WERA, and initially the group was known as AMA/CCS with events running under AMA sanction. Edmondson later brought the CCS 600cc Supersport, 750cc Supersport and 3-hour Endurance races to AMA Nationals to help promoters fill out their weekends. After initially running as a separate part of AMA weekends with independent registration, scoring and officiating, the CCS classes became an integrated part of the AMA program with Edmondson directing AMA National road racing. That arrangement ended in a dispute and subsequent court case, eventually settled when the AMA paid about $3 million to Edmondson in the summer of 2001. By that time, Edmondson had already sold CCS to what became Clear Channel, in 1999. Reached by phone, Kevin Elliott declined to comment.
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