Re: [ST] GP's: New & unimproved

["ASHLEY BENNETT" <spondon955@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The GP bikes sound like real bikes and with Rossi racing they are fun to
watch now.
Superbike was always the premier class of bike racing, no question.
Ashley

> Ladies & Gentlemen:
>
> The new GP rules allowing four stroke bikes have ruined Grand Prix
> Motorcycle Racing.
>
> Two races complete now. I held this back after the Suzuka round because of
> the wet race there. We really didn't get a good look at the impact of the
4
> strokes on the sport then. Now we know. African GP, Wellcom, the four
> stroke's are in a different class.
>
> I understand and agree with Matt Knowles point that at least they are now
> running machinery with technology that could _conceivably_  trickle down
to
> us sport minded street & occasional track riders. But at what expense?
I'll
> tell ya: At the death of the premier, most exclusive, highest echelon of
> motorcycle roadracing. It's gone forever & I for one will lament it's
> passing the same way I lament the ban on turbocharging in F1 in the 80's.
>
> Two classes now compete in the 'top' class but they're scored together. I
> have a bad (but hopefully thoughtful) comparison: If we modified my not
> fully developed homemade S6 (and other mfr's similar sedans)  to the point
> they'd DOMINATE F1 races next year, the FIA says  bring them on. What
> happened? Of course we just killed Formula 1. And that's what has just
> happened to the GP's. Please, at any of motorsports Highest Level of
> racing, you don't change the rules to allow drastically different types
> of  machinery to compete in the premier class. Or at least score them
> differently: 500's 1-2-3 and 4-Strokes 1-2-3. No, I take that back: DON'T
> RUN THEM IN THE SAME CLASS !
>
> Hey, don't they already have a series for the crim-de-la-crim of the 4
> stroke roadracing machines? Yeah, we know it & love it. I wished all those
> new Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Aprilla (did I miss one?) were in that series.
>
> Matt, couldn't the technology 'trickle-down' from there, too. I sure hope
> it works better that wonderful trickle down economics a'la Regan era
> Republican idreameology.
>
> Johh Petrey
> Apex Dawg, distraught 500GP fan
>
>
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