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There was an electric buzz around
the paddock at the opening round of
the MotoAmerica series at Circuit of
the Americas --
not only because it was running in support to the third round of the
MotoGP World Championship, but also due to the optimism concerning the future of the series. In the grand scheme of things, the MotoAmerica Championship is still
in it’s infancy as the first round at COTA marks the beginning of the third season under the new promotion. Wayne Rainey, three-time 500cc World Champion and the man in charge of bringing American road racing back to it’s glory days, is borrowing the determination that he once showed as a racer and applying it to this new venture.
Rainey felt slighted with rumblings from other officials and industry insiders around the world claiming that the Americans have fallen too far behind and they’ll never catch up with the current state of the popular domestic championships overseas.
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