The conflict between the Daytona Motorsports Group, many of the current AMA Superbike promoters and the motorcycle manufacturers continues, based on their meeting last week at Infineon Raceway.

DMG's Roger Edmondson met with many of the roadrace promoters on Friday to present his vision of what the 2009 series will look like.

The promoters voiced their concern that there is seemingly no place that the factory teams will race on a DMG race weekend.

The promoter group later met with the Motorcycle Industry Council's Tim Buche. In that meeting they asked Buche to obtain from the manufacturers what exactly it would take for them to race in the 2009 DMG/AMA series. Once they get that answer, then the promoters will again approach Edmondson with that data and hopefully work out a compromise.

Essentially, now that the AMA's Rob Dingmann and the AMA board have signed off on the sale of AMA Pro Racing to Daytona Motorsports Group, the only entity left to plead the case for the manufacturers is the promoters.

Edmondson and his team have tried to come up with different scenarios which would keep the factory teams in racing but as yet have not told the manufacturers what they want to hear.

The promoters desperately want the US factory teams included in any professional motorcycle race that they hold at their facility. Collectively the manufacturers spend around sixty-million dollars in US roadracing per season and a nice chunk of that money is spent sponsoring and supporting events.

Edmondson's frustration in trying to both include the factory teams and also follow-though on his vision was clear at Mid-Ohio. It is sure to have grown since then as many of the manufacturers and promoters are pushing him to adopt no changes for the 2009 season, meaning the series rules and format would remain static until 2010.

Edmondson, reached today, said that he is working on a schedule and will release one soon.