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How would you do manage your MotoGP?

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Hello people.

We all have ideas and opinions about everything in this forum. Myself, besides liking the bikes, I also follow the WRC and the F1. And once in a while, I start to think about how I would run the sport
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. For the best, of course.
So, I will tell everybody how it should be done
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. Listen carefully my friends.

- MotoGP 800, MotoGP 400 and MotoGP 200. The other classes should not be discriminated. They should call themselves MotoGP also. As for 400 and 200, I hope it will be like this when they change to 4-strokes. Before 125-250-500, and now 200-400-800;
- 5 manufacturers, 10 teams, 20 pilots. The 5 official manufacturers, then 5 satellite teams: 2 from Honda, Yamaha and Ducati. Each team must have 2 pilots. So, we are guaranteed the 20 pilots. There will be no wildcards. In the other classes yes, but in 800 no;
- 20 circuits. 10 in Europe, 10 in the rest of the world. 3 countries can have 2 GP. Spain, Italy and Japan. No MotoGP circuit should be the same as the one that F1 runs in. So in Malaysia, they can run in Johor. In China, in Zhuli. For the 2nd Japanese GP, the name should be Asian GP. The Italian, European GP. For the Spanish , FIM GP. It's the last of the year, so it´s a good name. Also, there should be a return to South Africa, and to Brazil. There should be only one MotoGP in the US. Spain with 3 GP's, no way! It's too much;
- The teams should have only 2 names: the bike and the sponsor name. So it would be Honda-Repsol, for example. Much more simple;
- the numbers should be from 1 to 21 the (13 would be out);
- the points should go from 1st to 6th: 10-6-4-3-2-1;

Ok I have some more ideas but for now it´s enough. Call Caramelo because I'm available
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Waiting for the comments
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Good question, I'd have to give it some thought.

Right off the top of my head BRING BACK ISTANBUL


and two umbrella girls for every rider
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- For MotoGP, a fuel-limited formula with unlimited engine format and capacity. Let 'em innovate.

- Encourage and reward the use of more environmetally friendly fuels, to keep the green lot happy. Experiment with Hydrogen power.

- Control tyre

- Standard ECU, complete ban on rider aids

- Races extended to about an hour in length

- 20 races per season, one per country, running from March to November

- January is 'launch month', with web-televised public team launches, and interviews with riders and team bosses ahead of the season

- Febraury is test month, with three three day tests. On the final day of each test, a two-hour non-championship endurance race will be held, with teams of two riders. Works as an extended reliability test for teams, and gives the fans a few races to watch before the season begins.

- The Monday, and occasionally Tuesday at the end of each race weekend becomes a test day, on the same circuit they raced on. Apart from this, mid-season testing is not allowed.

- At the end of each season, a non-championship race will be held, where teams have to field at least two riders. Only riders with 6 GP's or less experience will be allowed.

- Live streaming of all races through MotoGP.com

- Press conferences will be in a more relaxed environment
 
I would like to see a point rewarded for pole... because it can be a snoozefest sometimes!



<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (waterfire @ Jan 13 2008, 11:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>- MotoGP 800, MotoGP 400 and MotoGP 200. The other classes should not be discriminated. They should call themselves MotoGP also

They are already in Motogp... but you gotta separate them a little from the actual crowd puller which is the top class.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (waterfire @ Jan 13 2008, 11:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>- 20 circuits. 10 in Europe, 10 in the rest of the world. 3 countries can have 2 GP. Spain, Italy and Japan. No MotoGP circuit should be the same as the

Does the rest of the world even have 10 world class race tracks.... and the interest in the sport is lacking in places like Asia.
 
1. fuel limited 4 stroke engines, unlimited configuration unlimited capacity

- I would love to see many different engine configs (2 stroke, rotary) but if one manufacturer figured out an incredible unconventional engine config they would dominate in perpetuity and the competitive nature of the sport would be hurt. 4 strokes only. Can't afford to build a 1000cc V5? Build a 2000cc twin
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1 config per season.

2. Control tyre

-3 compounds, 3 tread zones, 2 different tires. I think that's 27 configs for the front, 27 tire configs for the back. That should be more than enough.

3. Purpose built motorcycle tracks that are easily altered; have a variety of layouts on the calendar.

-use the damn track to control performance. Stop writing rules willy nilly every time someone gets too fast. Altering tracks frequently will make it easier to enter motogp regardless of where you grew up racing. Tickets will go up
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sorry. When I say frequently I mean once a decade or as dictated by performance. The track you raced at 15 isn't the same one you race at 25.

-have a variety of layouts. I think they have this pretty well covered. Keep the rollercoasters like Laguna, Sachsenring, and PI. Keep the old world tracks like Assen, LeMans, Mugello. Make Mugello a restrictor plate race to keep speeds down
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In the future maybe they could run street courses. I know city races are out of the question, but some well groomed country lanes would be pretty cool.

-give some tracks character, like undulations or progressive camber etc. Think of motocross. Many different fast ways through the mud, make multiple fast lines, encourage riders to take chances running on different parts of the track. Plus, I want to see them add more off camber, that will really separate the men from the boys.

4. Change tire rule. Test Friday, then order. Test Saturday then decide what to run based on what you have. Number of sets can stay the same.

5. Slightly raise the minimum machine weight (10kg maybe) to reduce the impact the rider has on percentage of total rider/bike weight and decrease corner speed. I'm sick of seeing emaciated men with chronically broken bones.

That's about it. I'm not worried about TC or electro junk. The only reason it plays a dominant role now is because little engines with huge power are difficult to control. If you make a nice smooth 1200cc triple you won't need 10,000 sensors to make suitable for human control. You don't need massive amounts of engine electronics to make top end and midrange out of the same engine.
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- For MotoGP: 999cc engine capacity, allow unconventional engine configs, allow weight bonuses for innovative technology (e.g. energy renewal), allow oval pistons, must be 4 stroke.

- Control tyre, to keep everyone happy.

- Electronic aids banned. Including traction, launch and wheelie control.

- 20 races per season, with over half of the tracks in Europe, not some stupid far away countries for the money, Moto gp IS European, and it should stay that way. (call me old fashioned
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- The Monday, and occasionally Tuesday at the end of each race weekend becomes a test day, on the same circuit they raced on. Apart from this, mid-season testing is not allowed.

- Allow Friday to be a testing day, allow non championship riders to be tested.



Nicked the template from Oormate
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Traverser @ Jan 14 2008, 12:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>and two umbrella girls for every rider
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ok, i'll agree to that...


... providing the riders take to the grid half naked too! (well, the fit ones anyway)
 
Evening all

Basically, MotoGP should get real with itself and stop trying to compete with F1. It needs to call a halt to the relentless (expensive) overdevelopment of these bikes. They keep making the bikes more powerful and then they need more electronics to controp the power. A vicious circle of expense if there ever was one.

Someone said that, last season, they should have upped the engine capacity to 1200cc, not decreased it to 800. I agree. We need to see the tyres spinning up again and the rider battling to control the thing.

Talking of tyres, bin this stupid limited tyres idea. Let them have as much as they want. Qualifying used to be good to watch. Now, if they've used up all their qualy's, the last few minutes die away in terminal boredom. If a control tyre keeps the costs down, then so be it.

We need to get rid of all the F1 designed tracks. They are so boring.

We need to reduce the dependence on big buck sponsorship because MotoGP needs to get the grid up to more than 30 bikes and there ain't enough money to go around.

What about some sort of budget control - say $3 million a team? I dunno, but you might see the return of Aprilla, Illmor and might possibley attract BMW or Harley.

What about banning sponsorship for the 125 and 250 teams and channeling the cash into the premier class?

It's a difficult one to tackle - but it needs to be tackled thats for sure. ALl we need it Yamaha or Honda to cut a team and either Kawasaki or Suzuki to pull out and you could easily end up with a dozen bikes on the grid.

Hardly a spectacle eh?

Unless....

You go for hydrogen powered bikes? Jesus, I can just see the Yamaha M1 Zeppelin.....



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For me, they should have stuck with the 990s. Keep the limited tire rule but let the team choose on Saturday instead of Thursday, and not allow overnight specials. Keep the 21 liter fuel rule, but increase Minimum weight of the bikes per number of cylinders.

Then for the TV spectacle, all bikes should be fitted with cameras (front and back of bikes, no need for the 'butt' shot IMO) and allow users to switch views (dunno how, but i'm guessing it's possible thru online streaming).

But of course non of this will happen, so the next best thing is that they should stabilize the current rules and avoid those knee-jerk changes to facilitate 'closer racing'. Let the current rules mature first before drastically changing anything on it.
 
Does the rest of the world even have 10 world class race tracks.... and the interest in the sport is lacking in places like Asia.
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ha ha ... You are joking aren't you! Get off your high horse! I'd like to know what your definition of a "world class track" is!
 
1. A team budget cap.... make it reasonable so that its not just the rich manufacturers who win.

2. The 21 litre rule stays....but the capacity & engine layout are open to whatever you want.
Min weight goes up to 150 Kg irrespective of no of cylinders.

3. A reduction in the on-board processor size/speed. this will hopefully reduce the speed with which the ECU can react to the various inputs...making it harder to have sophisticated traction control.

4. No saturday night "specials in the tyre dept. but as many as you want during race weekend.

5. Current testing rules remain the same.

IMO rule #1 will have the biggest impact. do you spend your money on bike development or do you spend it on a big name rider? now thats a good question!

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Jan 16 2008, 02:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>1. A team budget cap.... make it reasonable so that its not just the rich manufacturers who win.

2. The 21 litre rule stays....but the capacity & engine layout are open to whatever you want.
Min weight goes up to 150 Kg irrespective of no of cylinders.

3. A reduction in the on-board processor size/speed. this will hopefully reduce the speed with which the ECU can react to the various inputs...making it harder to have sophisticated traction control.

4. No saturday night "specials in the tyre dept. but as many as you want during race weekend.

5. Current testing rules remain the same.

IMO rule #1 will have the biggest impact. do you spend your money on bike development or do you spend it on a big name rider? now thats a good question!

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See the Chris Pike thread for how to stop sophisticated TC very simply.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Traverser @ Jan 13 2008, 07:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Good question, I'd have to give it some thought.

Right off the top of my head BRING BACK ISTANBUL


and two umbrella girls for every rider
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Agreed on the first part, but only two grid girls? I was thinking a whole team of them per rider. And please, tell Ucio that he cannot step foot on the grid. No place for him.

Tell the World Health Organization and any nation who bannes tobacco adverstiement, but plastering the bikes with tobacco logos. Put something in those Rizzla's, or bring back Lucky Strike. Camel instead of FIAT on Rossi's bike. Team KR could bring back Marlboro.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (waterfire @ Jan 13 2008, 04:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>- The teams should have only 2 names: the bike and the sponsor name.
Yeah, no ...., has anybody heard what the new factory Suzuki team is offically called in the AMA? Answer: The RockStar-Makita-Yoshimura-Suzuki-Team. Now that's a breathful of names. Imagine what the post race interview will sound like when they list the team, tires, and contigent sponsors?
 
I think in Qatar which seems to be the season opener now... the girls need to take their clothes off.
 
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Traverser @ Jan 13 2008, 08:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>and two umbrella girls for every rider
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hell with the riders... how about 2 umbrella girls for each fan
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