In the past European riders would travel to the US as it was a good place to collect some world championship points.

This year I see only ten riders in the class, and quite a few world championship points not claimed.

There is little or no chance of success at WTC for the also rans and to travel would not help.Top 4/5 will be Doug Raga bou Caby Fuji hopefully in that order. My guess is that the expenses are not there for the others.

Think about it - Lane could have scored WTC points without having to ride any of the sections.

Think about it - Lane could have scored WTC points without having to ride any of the sections. 

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Your right, if you don't show up you can't score! I would have rode if they would have allowed it. So would have Ringo!

Remember last year, 14th and 15th place points were grabbed by two NATC riders filling those last two places. This year if the NATC had put US riders on the world championship line, 5 NATC riders would have scored points.

It's a sad day when the US champion has never scored a single world championship point in his whole career!

Glass half full Lane, Cody Webb earned 23 world championship points over the weekend placing him currently in 8th place in the Junior Championship. 16 riders have points.

Edited May 24, 200620 yr by City Trials

Not the world championship Citytrials, Jr world championship, big differnce! Sorry, not trying to be negative, just realistic.

His results do show that the 125cc, then Jr world title and then the World Wide ONE is a logical progression that we Americans can leverage into another US world title. The good news is we now have a progression and the stepping stones we have lacked for years for US riders.

All that's left to work out is how do we get the NATC to get off their dime and provide a progression for our youngsters into the 125cc world title? That progression would be a 125cc national title.