Aaron Yates Conduct - Will the AMA Do Anything?

I used to be an Aaron Yates fan. Used to. He's the same amazingly
talented racer that made me that way, but his conduct on the track is
totally unacceptable. In 2003 he decided to lay down on the track to
red flag a race. Now in the 2004 Daytona 200 he decided to drop-kick
and head-butt a backmarker who he foolishly tried to pass on the
outside. Aaron Yates is not a person who can legitimately get mad at
anyone for causing accidents at the track. You can't blame him for
ending Eric Bostrom's season last year, but you have to admit the
accident was his fault. If anyone deserves a butt-kicking for a
racing incident, he does for that one.

The AMA should suspend and fine him heavily. If I were the owner of
his race team, I'd find someone else to pilot my bike. He's a
liability.

So, what do we all think they're gonna do? Will the AMA actually step
up and put the binders on post-crash fisticuffs? I hope they do!

 

Ditto. AMA will do nothing though. Yates is low class and pulls more
bone head moves out on the track (e.g. Laguna Seca World Superbike
last year) than any of the other top racers. Speed didn't have a good
angle on this incident, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find
that Yates as more than 50% at fault on this one.

JP

 

i was going to post the exact same thing you just did. I sometimes
admire his hard riding, but he acts like a big stupid redneck sometimes.

I don't think the AMA will do more than fine him and possibly take away
some points (but of course he doesn't have any points now so I don't
know if they will do that).

I totally think the accident was Yates fault, but the fault of the accident
doesn't matter. Shit will happen and he can't like that. That guy was just
getting up and still looked a bit shaken. He could have been injured
and Yates drop kicks him. I would hope that they toss his ass out for
a year but then we would only have 5 people in the chapmionship!
I wish Yosh would dump him and put someone else on that bike.

 

Based on the fact that he was on the outside of the rider and
turned in to him. Sure the rider moved over some, but he was
getting ready to take that turn. I don't believe he had been
given a move over flag, how was he supposed to know that
an idiot redneck on a Suzuki was coming up to pass too closely.

Yates also seem to hit the back markers more than just about
anyone else in the AMA.

 

Yes, and he was jumping around like a monkey!

Too much of a potential liability, and he doesn't seem like it when they
interview him.

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I think it was a Speed channel announcer last year who said that Yates was
resented by lappers who say he pushes them out of the way.


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Under 3/7 He Said, He Said: Yates Vs. Fania
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I was watching the lap times and Mladin pushed for the whole race. One
or two 49s, loads of 50s. The only person who could match that was Eboz,
but Eboz was consistently half a second faster. The result was pretty
inevitable. How many times have we watched a Ducati run like a rabbit at
Daytona and then fade, blow up, crash or whatever[1]?

So what is Duhamel's excuse? I know it was only 7 seconds at the end but
weren't the new Hondas supposed to be a step above the Suzuki?

Mostly it just seems to be yet another Daytona anomaly. Only 6
competitive bikes start. 2 top runners and potential champions will now
have to play catch up after DNFs against a bigger points handicap. Only
3 bikes finish on the same lap with the next bike having been lapped
twice.

Then there's the formulae. Superbike looks awfully thin as teams and
riders are sucked into Superstock instead. Similarly with 600ss where
half the teams and the biggest manufacturer desert to Extreme. Except
that Extreme doesn't have it's act together yet and the bikes are
actually slower[2]. The whole thing looks like a mess to me.

[1]Or the competition is gifted a pace car session. Not that anyone
cheated of course.

[2] So the Extreme bikes have "too much rear tyre" because they are
trying to run superbike wheels and slicks? Well why not just run 600ss
wheels and tyres then? I'm sure Pirelli could fix them up with
something! ;-)

 

Have you seen that stuff at clubs?
Back in the olden days of the late '60s when I was racing, nothing like that
ever happened. The bar at which we met said that we were the most peaceful
group that used it. (AFM South).
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Of course we now know that the problem was a holed oil rad so not
necessarily any engine fragility. Except that they had the same thing
happen in testing, so you'd think they'd fit a more substantial guard or
something. You also have to ask just why there was so much stuff on the
track.

Whatever, it's still another Ducati Daytona DNF.

It was surprising there were so many Ducati failures at Valencia as
well. Haga's gearbox, Laconi's chain and Martin's oil failure. Just
statistical anomalies?

 

On TV they showed Chili politely counseling Yates.


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