No racing or on-track activities will take place in the rain or on a wet racetrack this weekend during the AMA Superbike Championship event at Road Atlanta. That’s the word from Ron Barrick, AMA Pro Racing Road Race Series Manager during the lunch break in Thursday’s promoter practice. “The sealer patches seem worse than the last time we were here,” Barrick told Roadracingworld.com. “With the sealer patches placed very spotty through the corners and with the concrete patches in the corners, the surface is just too inconsistent [to ride in the rain].” “All of the forecasts that we have pulled up look really good for this weekend,” said AMA Pro Racing Road Race Series Director Keith Kizer. “So even though it is true we could have some issues this weekend if it does rain, at this point it looks like rain will not be a major factor. And we have had meetings with Road Atlanta’s management over the last two days and come up with plans that could absolutely guarantee we race here in the rain in the future. In fact, the track is considering holding a press conference on Sunday to go over the outline of those plans.” Kizer’s weather forecast is accurate, according to www.weather.com, which calls for mostly cloudy skies and a 20% chance for a stray rain shower Friday, a 30% chance of isolated thunderstorms on Saturday and partly cloudy skies and a 20% chance for rain on Sunday. High temperatures for the weekend are expected to only reach the mid-80s, much cooler than during some past AMA events at Road Atlanta. Word that there would be no racing in the rain at Road Atlanta quickly spread through the paddock Thursday, and immediate reaction was mixed. Some were disappointed to hear the news, like Warr’s Harley-Davidson/Buell racer Jeremy McWilliams. McWilliams felt his vast rain racing experience would have equalized the performance of his V-Twin-powered Buell XB-RR compared with the four-cylinder machines that make up the vast majority of the Formula Xtreme class. Others, like Matsushima Performance/Yoshimura Suzuki’s Danny Eslick, felt AMA Pro Racing made the right call. “I think it was a wise decision for them to call that now instead of in the middle of the weekend,” said Eslick.