<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nuts @ Mar 5 2009, 06:27 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>To be honest, I really think TC makes .... all difference to the racing.
What we need is competative bikes, and preferably some teams that get it wrong occasionally to mix it up.
What we do need is to make MotoGP a profitable sport for independent players, to attract more players.
If axing TC cuts costs, and brings in other teams - who have some hope of competing - then axe TC.
Don't axe TC because you think it will make the racing any better.
SBK has good racing because the bikes are bloody even. They all have the evil electronics and Traction Control.
Hard to argue with most of your points, although I think the riders are also more even in wsbk, and I think the nature of the tyres in the 2 formulae has also contributed, as they still wear out in wsbk adding a complicating factor not usually present (for bridgestone runners at least) in recent years in motogp.
I have said before that I think it is a real problem for motogp, as the only direction for them to head seems to be closer to wsbk, in which case the point of having both formulae comes into question. At the moment as you say, the bikes in wsbk have similar technology anyway, although I guess the development costs have been largely paid for in motogp. Continual ad hoc rule changes in a prototype formula would seem to me to be the worst policy of all though.
