Daytona Motorsports Group principal Roger Edmondson says there will be no Factory Superbike class in AMA Superbike racing in 2009, because the four Japanese manufacturers missed today’s deadline to commit to the class.

Therefore, Edmondson says, next year’s race weekend will consist of a pair of doubleheaders – two races for the 600cc Daytona Superbike class and two races for the 1000cc American Superbike class.

Edmondson says he emailed the four Japanese manufacturers two weeks ago, asking them to commit by today (Friday, August 15, 2008) to the Factory Superbike class, which was based on World Superbike rules.

The idea of that class, announced in response to the Japanese manufacturers’ demand for a class that more closely resembled World Superbike rules, was to create a place where the factories could run their WSB bikes, on whatever tires they wanted, with no restrictions on testing.

But Edmondson says he received no response to his inquiries, so the class will not be run next season.

“I emailed the four Japanese distributors who I’ve been dealing with, it seems like forever,” Edmondson says. “This was always their class if they wanted it. But there was no interest.”

I was really hoping for something positive would come out of the NASCRAP group takeover, but it looks to be going to shit like everone predicted. Not sure where that's going to leave a lot of riders. Maybe a move to WSB? Maybe more WSB rounds over here(I could only hope)