In many people's opinion AMA has already been showing quite a bit of favor to Buell. So to continue their success in this series (not hating on Buell here but this is where they're having most of it) they create a turnkey, track only model of bike and it is almost immediately granted permission into the series. If Ducati tried to enter the Desmo I'm quite sure everyone would cry foul. Just seems like the favoritism continues... Take that with a grain of salt, I've been reading up on it but haven't been able to watch much