There is a lot of adverse criticism of Dorna at present, much of it justified. At least it seems to be apparent that they have realized there are major flaws in letting Honda run the show, it has created this expensive-ridiculous series that is current.
Testing regs are amongst the most stupid anyway, and changes to this are seen as blessings from most teams, bar Honda that is
What I would like to know is, why do we still need a 6 engine limit reg? Why do we still need a control tyre? Why do we need a fuel limit? These are the three major flaws in the design, much like Ducati, Dorna seems unable to address their major problems.
None of these regs have brought decreased costs, better/fairer racing or an increase in safety, Rossi, Pedrosa, Jorge, Spies, Aoyama, Caparossi, Edwards, Barbera, Crutchlow, have all suffered from devastating injury in the last 2 seasons, so much for increased safety, even in the 500 days we didn't see such a wide spread problem with injury. In fact these regs have done the complete opposite of what they were intended for, or at least what the MSMA would like us to believe they were intended for, as the primary goal was achieved for the architects last weekend.....
Forget about testing, the major issues are yet to be fixed, and Honda knows all to well that opening up these regs allows for many more variables with far less money spent, whilst the competition won't be 'level', it will be 'fair'......A 500 use to cost around 150K, you could run 5 of these with spares for the cost of Honda's gearbox today........
