Via e-mail: RESPONSE REQUESTED: Important Matter Regarding the 2010 AMA Pro Road Racing Rule Book To: AMA Pro Road Racing Entrants and Riders From: AMA Pro Competition Date: December 16, 2009 Subject: Important Matter Regarding the 2010 AMA Pro Road Racing Rule Book We are going to release our rule book shortly. We have determined to seek input from our riders and entrants in an area of importance. We will need your email response on or before December 20, 2009. If you are a rider/entrant, you submit your response once, if you are an entrant, you respond once, please. Your response can only come back as a reply to this email. If there are any attempts to “stuff the response box” by a single entity, all those emails will be disregarded. Please access a PDF with more information at ~http://www.amaproracing.com/assets/2010RuleBookImportantMatter.pdf~ and send in your response to this email account ([email protected]) with your answer. AMA Pro Racing What the pdf file says: 2010 Rule Book” Important Matter Hello all, We are going to release our rule book shortly. We have determined to seek input from our riders and entrants in an area of importance. We will need your email response on or before December 20, 2009. If you are a rider/entrant, you submit your response once, if you are an entrant, you respond once, please. Your response can only come back as a reply to this email. If there are any attempts to “stuff the response box” by a single entity, all those emails will be disregarded. The rule question is simple: If the race is red flagged with more than two laps having been completed, what shall be the preferable course of action? 1) A single file rolling restart from behind a safety vehicle based on track position at the time of the red flag.* “Or” 2) A clutch start from a grid determined by the riders position across the start/finish line on the lap prior to the red flagged lap.** *Points in favor of rolling restarts –Avoids long delays –Keeps “program moving” –Avoids delays and conflicts over assigning grid positions; and –Lessens chances of clutch problems due to multiple starts **Points in favor of clutch starts –Traditional format with rider familiarity; and –Perceived to be popular with fans; and –Potential for lower turn one speeds following the restart Your email response (which must be received by 12/20/09) to this email must be limited to either: (1)” Rolling restart”; or (2) “Clutch start from a grid” Thank You, Al Ludington Technical Director AMA Pro Racing