Comment: Flourishing AMCA Championship going from strength to strength
By Anthony Sutton on 7th May 21
I have to admire the guys and girls at the AMCA as theyve completely changed their ethos when it comes to their flagship series and unlike previous decades/centuries where it was very much a closed affair, it now seems to welcome everyone and its flourishing as a result with the 2021 edition looking set to be the best one ever.
And the one thing the AMCA Championship has that the other national championships do not is uniqueness in terms of their riders and the majority of the venues they use.
Okay, the AMCA Championships leading riders might not be as fast as those other championships top stars but those other championships would benefit from having the AMCA championships riders in their series the ones they have lost to the AMCA and also the ones whove come up through the amateur ranks like two-time AMCA MX2 champ Jamie Wainright.
With that in mind, Ive always found it a real shame that as a community weve never found a way to channel this talent and have a pathway from pure novice to MXGP superstar without it getting super messy along the way. ACU, AMCA, BSMA, ORMS, IOPD there are just too many organisations pulling this way and that to make it work.
I get that some people dont want to finish 15th to 20th in the ACU Championship when they can be a contender for an AMCA title and likewise some people dont want to be an AMCA champion when they could be chasing points in the Revo-sponsored series. Everyone is free to do what they want and thats fine as this is mean to be fun, right?
But at a time when the opening round of the UKs flagship series gets underway with less than full gates, its hard to imagine that back in the day thered be 40 British Championship riders plus up to 120 more all vying for a spot to get into the Support championship that would then enable them to qualify for a top 40 spot if they were fast enough.
Its obvious that theres no shortage of talent in the UK and if you put the ACU, AMCA, IOPD and ORMS riders all together wed easily find ourselves the fastest 40 and a list of ranked riders who are all ready and willing to replace them given the chance. But what would motivate them to do that?
The most obvious answer would be a reward system that makes it worthwhile. To a degree thats whats driving many former pro riders to the AMCA ranks as the support available in that series is phenomenal and the lack of prize money isnt an issue when you wouldnt make any in the British Championship anyway and youd get a whole lot less publicity while doing it. Hmmm.
I dont have the answers I do have some mad ideas though but what we can do is keep on supporting all the series out there with the added promise of upgrading our AMCA series coverage with the help of Mike Wood. The first round is on Sunday at Boraston and you can read the unrivalled coverage in next weeks paper.
See you then!
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