Parts Unlimited Ducati rider Ben Bostrom arrived late for the qualifying press conference on Saturday at Miller Motorsports Park. After he finished with his Q&A with the press regarding his qualifying session, Bostrom said that he had some things he wanted to get off his chest regarding AMA racing and AMA Roadrace Manager Ron Barrick.

This is a full transcript of Bostrom's comments on each subject.

On the Superbike class being treated like all the other classes in terms of the weekend schedule.

Ben Bostrom: The AMA treats the Superbike class like it's any other class. You can't have 30-minute qualifying. Or 40-minute, yesterday. Every time we go out, we have so much stuff to change on the bike. It's not like a Supersport bike. If it was a Supersport bike, I'd be fine with 40-minute sessions like they've been giving us. But it's not. It's a Superbike. So we always end up with - like I have three other things to test, and I can't try them. So it's kind of a bummer. It's supposed to be one hour for the morning and one hour in the afternoon. One hour on Saturday, one hour in the afternoon. That's what it should be. It's not right that they're cutting it down. Forty, 30. It's unbelievable. It's a Superbike, it's not just any other class. It's the most dangerous bike out there, the most variables of things to change, and we're treated like any other class. If you go to any other Superbike class around the world, they're always one-hour sessions. Because they know that one hour goes by so fast. Especially on a track like this where it takes two minutes to get around. And by rights, we should be running a 3-minute track out here. That's another complaint. But that needs to change, and the press needs to speak up about it. It's a really bad deal.

How would that be accomplished?

Don't start at 8:30, start at 8. Don't quit at 4:30, quit at 5. That's all they'd have to do. They've been starting late, because everyone's just being a bit lazy, and they're cutting off early too, which is a bad deal. They just start at 8 like it's supposed to, and end at 5. And some of the other classes aren't as important as Superbike. Just, if they have a 50-minute session, cut them down to 40. Just take 10 minutes out of a few of them. Because there's some the classes out here, obviously, that don't make a whole lot of sense, and I think everybody knows that. They're important, but they're not the class that's on TV that the whole world watches.

That there is not a class that allows up and coming riders a chance to race on the AMA Superbike weekend.

Every factory steals the show in every class. There's nothing like - you know, like John Doe here can just walk up and, "Okay, I'm 17 years old, I got a 600, what can I race?" He's going to get smoked. It's not cool. And that's what we need. We don't need all the classes. We just need less classes. The people out there don't need to be confused by two 1000cc classes. You can make another 1000cc class, but no factory should be involved in it. That should be for the guys who want to ride Superbike later on. So they buy a 1000 to learn how to ride it, put their time in on that a few years, then ride the Superbike.

At Miller, the flag tower is not used, while the AMA uses the same basic flagging station they do at every other track.

We have this bitchin' start/finish line thing here, you know? But on television, I'm going to see that. This guy's been flagging from over there in the dirt, right? It doesn't make any sense. It's so hokey. We have this beautiful racetrack. I want to complain about a few things. There's too many lines drawn on the front straight. This is a brand new track. I know why those lines are there, because I know who messed up. Giving the directions where to paint the lines. That guy shouldn't be over there. You guys should say something. We have one of the best tracks probably in the world, right here. They have this four-mile circuit and we don't run it. It's just one of the standard complaints. It's more or less one person's fault. Every track I've gone to, we've said, "Hey, there's a safety problem here or there," this was a couple years ago, and we told Ron Barrick, which is the way it's supposed to be, because he's the guy in charge of it. And you know what the complaint is, that he's never made one phone call. And this is three tracks. I've just come from Mid-Ohio; Fontana, and Barber. And each one, when a rider went there and complained, they moved it on the spot, some of the walls. And it definitely changed for next year. Something needs to be changed on that. There's just so many little issues like that. And the only people that are going to change it is the press. If you guys say enough. You guys did a great job on the lapper situation. It's better. The racing is just better now. Safer. If you guys would make more of a stink about that, everything would be better also.

On AMA Roadrace Manager Ron Barrick:

I told him that at Fontana: He needs to do his job. If you're not going to do it, you don't belong there. And he's - it's time to put someone else there. I got griped at for my lanyard, trying to get into the track - because the person at the front was trying to do his job, which is good. But I had an AMA lanyard on, and I took it off - because it just says AMA on it, or something - and I put a sponsor lanyard on, because that's what I wear around. And the guy wouldn't let me in the track. And then the AMA gets upset, because they go, "Oh, the Bostroms are protesting the AMA." We're not. Okay, Ron Barrick, yes, but not the AMA. But you guys need to say something. It's super-important. Put the flagger down. What the hell did they spend all that money on that flag tower for?