I can't speak for David, but I look at the situation with the AMA, and I figure ways to work within the system.

With turbines, they (the AMA) could have just rejected them outright. IMHO by and large, we have had reevaluation and relaxation of the turbine rules almost from the beginning. This is in no small measure due to the efforts of David and the JPO. We might all not like the rate, but we are making progress.

My original intent of the post was to tell the GS guys that the whining about other parts of the sport will backfire. It is hard to resist I know. In the beginning all we (turbine) guys could talk about was giant scale racing, helis etc and how dangerous they were.

When we got our act together at our events and demonstrated a very high level of self policing, we started to see results in the AMA.