From a letter issued by Bruno Event Team on behalf of Barber Motorsports Park:

As I am sure you are aware, the official statement from the Barber Motorsports Track is as follows:

In observance for the Easter weekend, Cornerspeed School/WERA open practice on Friday, April 18 and the WERA weekend event has been postponed until further notice. The 2003 WERA Sportsman Series is a motorcycle club series that was originally scheduled for this weekend, April 19-20. Rescheduling options are being discussed.


I would like to add the following:

We greatly regret that we have had to postpone the WERA event scheduled for April 18-20, 2003. This decision was made after much thought and consideration, and after discussions with WERA that covered approximately one week’s time. We regret that our final decision was made so close to the date.

We are currently working with WERA to reschedule this event. In addition, we will be offering both WERA and its members a special package for this rescheduled date. We hope very much that WERA will reschedule this event. At the moment, we have offered 2 separate weekends. Neither was acceptable to WERA, but we will keep trying and find a weekend that works.

There have been many rumors flying. Please do not speculate that there is anything more into this than what we have said in our official statement, because there is not.

To address just a few of the concerns and comments we have heard:

We are indeed a purpose built track for motorcycles, and we allow cars to run on our motorcycle track. We have had motorcycles on the track and we will continue to have motorcycles on the track.

Grass roots is what makes racing, we know and support this.

There is no turmoil between the Barber Motorsports Park and WERA. Nor any turmoil between the Bruno Event Team and WERA. WERA did not upset any of us, but we do understand WERA and its members being upset with us.

The decision to postpone the event was made by Barber Motorsports Park, not Bruno Event Team.

Our focus is, and has been for quite some time, to complete all the construction in the Park. We have 3 buildings that we are completing within the next week, and we are still working hard to complete the Musuem and a fiber optics race control system. Thus, with our focus on completing the facility, we have not paid close attention to the day to day operations, and we should have. We sincerely apologize for our over-site and the necessity to postpone this event.

We thank you for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,
Jeff Ray
The Barber Motorsports Park