No more money for Honda in MotoGp

Remember being said a couple of years ago, that both Honda and Yamaha had bigger budgets in MotoGP than all the other teams combined (being Suzuki, Kawasaki and Ducati).
Not sure where that came from, or any truth, but I doubt Honda will be in any trouble because their budget remains the same as 2009. They will still spend a crap load on development.
As I said elsewhere, I think Hiro Oayama will be on the Repsol bike next year anyway.

The 6 engine rule will just limit the laps riders do in practice.
Once they get a good setup, the bike will be parked. Less action for the fans.
This rule also has the potential to screw up the championship because someone has engine problems and require additional engine changes.
How pissed will the Rossi army be is VR looses the championship because he runs over the 6 engines allowed.

He'd partially have himself to blame. If his salary wasn't needlessly so large it could go into engine life development instead of a bank account so large no one could spend it.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gsfan @ Jan 6 2010, 04:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>He'd partially have himself to blame. If his salary wasn't needlessly so large it could go into engine life development instead of a bank account so large no one could spend it.

First real attempt to hook some Rossi fans:

FAILED

The Rossi faithful are skiing I guess. Anyway, these giant companies, pissing and moaning about a few million. It rings hollow. If all they did was produce 1,000,000 cars a year they'd be pretty boring. They have to race and they will race.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Teomolca @ Dec 25 2009, 07:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Apparently it's absolutely true, the 2010 RCV design has been compromised by the reduced budget.



Finally! A Honda small enough and light enough for Pedrosa! This is most likely
what Puig was talking about on the cel-phone in the best captions photo in the
other thread. Note the carbon fiber swing arm and apparent lack of electronics.