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Just to clarify for a couple of you folks.
I don't have a problem with the lower classes, and really, they are lower classes in the hierarchy. You can take offense to the categorization, but it's the nature of the beast and as stated has had nothing to do with Dorna. Well let me rephrase, I like Moto 3 a lot, but dislike Moto 2 because of the stupidity with the spec engine. It's made that series borderline unwatchable. But regardless of competitiveness in past in the 250cc/350cc and then 125cc/250cc classes, they became lower classes once top riders stopped participating in them. The days of Freddie Spencer running 350cc and 500cc the same day are gone and never coming back because of the money involved nowadays. It's the same thing that happened to F2 which was once incredibly competitive because you had a mix of full-time F2 drivers along with F1 drivers making appearances. Jimmy Clark was killed running the F2 race April 7, 1968 at Hockenheim. Once top racers stopped racing, that was where the delineation of classes became more readily apparent. I watch racing no matter what and am intending to try and watch at least 18 hours if not more of the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend. That's a great example of multi-class racing and importance. Not everyone watching that race gives a .... about certain classes and deem some of the lower classes as being of no interest to them. The only class I have reduced interest in is the LMGTE AM class which is the amateur drivers who are running GT class cars.
If you want lower classes to be seen again as they once were, you need to get top racers back into the lower classes because that is where the increased stature is going to come from.
I don't have a problem with the lower classes, and really, they are lower classes in the hierarchy. You can take offense to the categorization, but it's the nature of the beast and as stated has had nothing to do with Dorna. Well let me rephrase, I like Moto 3 a lot, but dislike Moto 2 because of the stupidity with the spec engine. It's made that series borderline unwatchable. But regardless of competitiveness in past in the 250cc/350cc and then 125cc/250cc classes, they became lower classes once top riders stopped participating in them. The days of Freddie Spencer running 350cc and 500cc the same day are gone and never coming back because of the money involved nowadays. It's the same thing that happened to F2 which was once incredibly competitive because you had a mix of full-time F2 drivers along with F1 drivers making appearances. Jimmy Clark was killed running the F2 race April 7, 1968 at Hockenheim. Once top racers stopped racing, that was where the delineation of classes became more readily apparent. I watch racing no matter what and am intending to try and watch at least 18 hours if not more of the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend. That's a great example of multi-class racing and importance. Not everyone watching that race gives a .... about certain classes and deem some of the lower classes as being of no interest to them. The only class I have reduced interest in is the LMGTE AM class which is the amateur drivers who are running GT class cars.
If you want lower classes to be seen again as they once were, you need to get top racers back into the lower classes because that is where the increased stature is going to come from.
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