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Brainerd International Raceway’s (BIR) tentative status on the 2005 AMA Superbike schedule is not so tentative. AMA Pro Racing has been in contact with Brainerd International Raceway and the only sticking point right now is whether or not the Superbike race weekend will be a two-day or three-day event.

According to BIR President Bill Singleterry, “It’s just whether we’re gonna have a Friday, Saturday, Sunday event like we normally always have or just have a Saturday and a Sunday event. That’s why that is put in there as tentative.

“When you break with tradition, How will that affect the fans? That’s the only point of discussion right now. Would it be detrimental to the fans, or to us, or to AMA if we just schedule it for Saturday and Sunday? We’re a lot different up here than most tracks. Most tracks you go to a hotel room and then you go out to the races. Here we have camping and everything.”

Singleterry went onto say, “There’s nothing like a big secret or something that’s going on. It’s just the fact will we do it Friday-Saturday-Sunday or will we just do it Saturday-Sunday?”

The current AMA Superbike Championship schedule has the event at BIR being held on June 25-26, as a two-day event. The 2004 AMA Superbike event at BIR was a three-day event.