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The MotoAmerica championship will not follow World SBK's lead for the new rule on the partial grid reversal in Race 2 based on the results of Race 1.
The American organizer was sure to make the announcement with an official notice.
“MotoAmerica will continue to use its current qualifying procedure to grid riders in 2017, but the AMA/FIM North America-sanctioned MotoAmerica Superbike Series will continue to monitor its World Superbike counterpart to see how its new system of gridding race two based on the results of race one is received by fans, teams and riders”.
In other words, the American championship does not want to make any hasty moves and, before changing its format, wants to see what will happen in WSBK, ready to take measures if the need should really arise.
MotoAmerica partner, Chuck Aksland, had this to say on the issue: “We went to the two-races-on-one-day concept that was used by World Superbike at the time, and we've switched back to a two-day format with the Superbike races for next year after monitoring World Superbikes lead for a year. For the new World Superbike grid system, we will take the same look, review how it works over the year and then assess if we move forward or not. It'll be interesting to watch and we look forward to seeing if the benefits make it worthwhile for MotoAmerica to move in that direction in 2018.”
