A few uninformed residents voted unanimously to deny Nitro Circus from having a show in my hometown of Annapolis. The residents in charge of making decisions for their community went on YouTube to analyze Nitro Circus Live and without any factual information, decided it would be "EXTREMELY disruptive." They cited that events like ours don't give much back to the local communities. This is really disappointing after everything nitro and myself have personally done over the past 16 years to talk and read to young students at schools. The support we've given to local athletics. The support and donations to injured vets and terminally ill children. We do these things because we want to and never expect a thank you, but I think it is EXTREMELY disappointing that we may not be able to put on a show in our home town in front of our family, friends and fans because a few individuals didn't bother to do any real research before shutting down something that would be such a positive impact on the local community. I also think it is EXTREMELY disappointing that people who live next to the Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium which regularly holds events with 30,000+ fans thinks that 8 to 10 thousand of our fans would cause more of a disturbance. Feel free to write into the Capital Gazette if you have been to a Nitro Circus Event and let them know what we are about and the experience you had there. Thanks.

This development is hot on the heels of the news about Anthony Bucci stepping down as CEO of RevZilla, showing that there is a great deal of flux in the online motorcycle retail space.

The closing of Motorcycle-Superstore is also timely to the demise of Motorcycle USA – the once media component to Motorcycle-Superstore, which MAG closed down in February 2016. That deal also saw MAG sell Cycle News to Powersport Media.

It’s not clear why MAG is closing down Motorcycle-Superstore, though one can hazard a guess that the consolidation is for cost purposes. Having to online retail spaces with minimal differences between them likely seemed like suspect decision-making.

In October, the Circuit of Wales secured a potential of £100 million from a private banking firm Kleinwort Benson which was hailed as 'the last piece of funding' required by the banking group's managing director Nigel Spray. Extreme is backed by the same private banking firm but will not be funding any of the building work.

In November, the Welsh Audit Office confirmed it was investigating how public money was spent in connection to the Circuit of Wales project regarding a £2 million development grant and underwriting £7.35 million bank loan in 2014. 

However, reports emerged last month that the Circuit of Wales is 'close' to finalising a new submission to the Welsh Assembly.

The Circuit of Wales project is set to be financially backed by insurance giants Aviva who are potentially lined up to cover to new funding plan changes.