Seems to me that all the uproar in the AMA stemming from Mladin practicing in the F-Xtreme class, the Superstock guys practicing in the Superbike class, and so forth, could be easily cured by restricting what machinery and which riders can be entered into each specific class. i.e. You can't race the same Superstock bike in both the Superstock class and the Superbike class and if you practice your Superbike in F-Xtreme then you MUST start the F-Xtreme race. The AMA has truly muddied the waters making the F-Extreme bikes and the 1000cc Superbikes SOOOOO close to each other as to be nearly indistinguishable. And on top of that, they pronounce these mid-season regulation changes that try to alleviate the situation with no discussion. <sarcasm> Make no mistake, they didn't change a rule because you can't change rules without a discussion period. </sarcasm> I've really hated the AMA's policy of letting WAY off the pace Superstock riders into the Superbike races just to pad the grid for a long time now. The cross-class practicing and racing has now appeared to really bite them in the ass. -Dirt-