Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > Desmo Due 2007

[TP]

Originally Posted by Paul James

The process for 2006 involved riders voting for the riders reps and the MT members being chosen from among the MT by the MT. Not all MT members wanted to be involved which is fair enough, I put my hand up as did Monty and nobody had any problem wth that. Part way through the season John had to step down due to work commitments and Chris came back on board to give me a hand.

My suggestion was that we consider how the MT is represented on the RC for next year which is why the survey had a question on that point. It must be represented as the series is run by the club for its members.

The process for nominating/voting the MT members on to the RC is again very dependent on the MT people who want to take on the role, you can't nominate one of those who don't want to do it.

I have suggested that you give the MT time to consider all of this so please do bear with us. I've some suggestions to put forward at our next meeting and would only ask that you give us time to work through this properly.

The present members of the MT are:

John Montgomery Chairman
Eamonn Townsend Webteam Leader
Chris Bushell Club Secretary
Mark Traves Treasurer
Elizabeth Monk Membership Secretary
Ian Allgar Pronto Editor
Grahame Butcher Commercial Manager
Paul Sutliffe Events Manager
Paul James PR Organiser

I asked for a list of positions on the MT and their job descriptions (where available) on July 26 and then again on Aug 28 in an e-mail to you, Monty and Chris Bushell whilst we were discussing my nomination for the MT.

Why have I been completely ignored?

[dickieducati]

[quote=Paul James].
Can any of the riders who are getting involved with all of the questioning please explain what they misunderstood about the 2006 DD rider survey.

You all had the opportunity to put forward your questions and all those received were added to the list. The data has been independently collated as I've already informed you all via email, surprisingly some of those posting here were so keen to have a say in what happens that they didn't even bother to complete and return the survey forms.

I've also suggested that a meeting be held after the cut off date for next years series registration to allow all riders in the series to come forward and offer any help they may wish to towards helping with the series.
At that point it would be reasonable to make the decisions on who runs the series from the MT perspective; surely it can't be right that those who haven't and may not sign up to ride in next years series should determine who runs it ?

Just to confirm yet again that Ducati Sporting Club will be running The Desmo Due Championship in 2007 for its members with New Era providing the race meetings. We hope to continue with the existing series sponsors and will be having ongoing discussions with them and New Era throughout the closed season.

QUOTE]

i didnt misunderstand anything about the questionaire, nor about the draft (yes i know it was draft) rules for next year which took nothing of the questionaire into account.

riders to offer help?

this happened on several occassions this year and none or very little of it was taken up. now im not a betting man but i would say if dom were to offer help with PR for next year it would be thrown back in his face. as would any help in attracting sponsors from other participants.

make the decisions on who from the mt runs DD?

you mean the unelected members of the MT decide who to make the unelected representative of DD between themselves.

and i will repeat again there is no certainty that the DSC will be running a ducati series next year for its members.

yes there will be a ducati series in exactly the same format as it is now and hopefully with new era and hopefully with the dsc running it, but why cant you accept there a big issues here that need addressing. there are a huge number of people with alot of good thing to say and put into DD. either you cant see it or you refuse to accept it.

DD is a superb series and can be even better but it has to be given the freedom to progress and it will be a shame it if is held back because certain people wont allow it to be taken from their control.

its the best series that new era put out and there is so much enthusiasm from riders, team owners, sponsors, and dsc supporters that it would be a travesty to waste it.

[domski]

Originally Posted by dickieducati

i didnt misunderstand anything about the questionaire, nor about the draft (yes i know it was draft) rules for next year which took nothing of the questionaire into account.

riders to offer help?

this happened on several occassions this year and none or very little of it was taken up. now im not a betting man but i would say if dom were to offer help with PR for next year it would be thrown back in his face. as would any help in attracting sponsors from other participants.

make the decisions on who from the mt runs DD?

you mean the unelected members of the MT decide who to make the unelected representative of DD between themselves.

and i will repeat again there is no certainty that the DSC will be running a ducati series next year for its members.

yes there will be a ducati series in exactly the same format as it is now and hopefully with new era and hopefully with the dsc running it, but why cant you accept there a big issues here that need addressing. there are a huge number of people with alot of good thing to say and put into DD. either you cant see it or you refuse to accept it.

DD is a superb series and can be even better but it has to be given the freedom to progress and it will be a shame it if is held back because certain people wont allow it to be taken from their control.

its the best series that new era put out and there is so much enthusiasm from riders, team owners, sponsors, and dsc supporters that it would be a travesty to waste it.

What he said ^^^^