The upcoming three round Summer AFXSBK Championship Day/night Summer Series will see a number of changes that are aimed to improve the spectacle of the event not only for TV but also for live spectators while also lowering costs for competitors.
The Summer Series will be run as one day events with the Eastern Creek first round and the Winton Raceway series finale being run on Saturday as day / night events with a estimated finishing time of approximately 8:00 pm. The second Wakefield round will be run as a normal Sunday day time event for 2010 but changing to a day/nighter for 2011.
The same classes that have competed in the AFXC will all compete in the Summer Series, some with name changes though. The only new class to be introduced for the AFXSBK will be a Motard based class for 450 and upto 600 cc bikes which will be named SuperMono and be given Australian Championship status. To keep the costs down for all competitors there will be unofficial practise day the day before each of the rounds that competitors can chose to go to if they want to.
Everyone is already aware that the premier class in the winter AFXC series is the FX1000 class. For the Summer Series FX1000 will now compete on slicks and adopt the name of the Summer series being FX Superbike for the three round racing extravaganza.
The newly named premier class FX Superbike will move to control Dunlop slick tyres. In another cost reducing exercise the FX Superbike competitors will be restricted to one set of medium compound slicks per round not only for the four shorter then normal races per round but also for the one qualifying session. There will be only one size rear tyre and one compound for the FX Superbikes, both fronts and rears will be medium compound and the rear will only be allowed in the 200 section size.
These changes to the event format making them one day only race meetings and the reduction and change to slicks for the FX Superbike class will see sizeable reductions in costs for competitors.
The AFXC‰Ûªs FX Pro-Twins championship class for the Summer Series will also get a new name that being Pro-Thunder. The formula‰Ûªs in Pro-Thunder will remain the same as Pro-Twins and no rules will be changed. That will also be the same for the FX Superbikes‰Ûª, apart from a shift to control slicks the rules will remain the same as the 2010 FX1000 class rules.
Lights can be fitted to all of the ADR complied FX classes but are not mandatory. With racing finishing around the 8:00pm time there will still be plenty of daylight to run all the races.
There will be a number of other important announcements to be released over the next week or two that will build towards the renaissance of Summer motorcycle racing in Australia with the twist of it also being day/night racing for the first time.
For further details please contact Terry O‰ÛªNeill from ARTRP in business hours on 02 48 235 711 or by email on
admin@aus-superbikes.com.au 
