If you want closer "racing" hire two clowns, hire five if need be till you are sated.
I've made it quite clear that I am happy to watch a rider ride well, with or without clowns. Though the clowns can just be a distraction
I do leave the room for the "clown shows"
The funny thing is that for all the bopper sooking about things being boring, and some "threatening" ( no great loss there
so I don't get the intention of their spatty ) to take their bat and ball and go play with the WSBK crowd ......
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+1.....The clowns do nothing for me............all I meant, was, (as in the previous post) they make it an easy sell to the "unwashed" masses.....or whatever we may call them.
That, to me, sucks..........in as much as it keeps money coming into Moto, and therefore prolongs it's existence.
......a double edged sword, so to speak.
My only wish, is like the days of the early nineties ( no.....I don't want it to go back to then), or like a 125 race....that we get to watch that edge of the chair, holding of breath type racing where it comes down to the last couple of laps, or the last corner.
You know, as I do, that sometimes it's a bit of a drag to wait all week ( or whatever) to sit up till the late/early hours to watch a race, that turns out to be a 20-odd lap extension of Qualifying.
Sure, it's magnificent to watch something like Stoners performance at Silverstone, but to see someone right there with him....preferably on another make of machine...........wow !!
There are riders out there who could go with him.......maybe not better, or able to beat him......that's a moot point. The reason everyone liked the Schwantz / Rainey era was...........two different bikes........and you
never knew who would win..........sure......probably Rainey........but you never knew.
Now ?
And I don't mean any disprespect to Stoners ride........undoubtably the difference with Honda winning.
But it's honda 1,2,3.........I like to think if someone else got there machine up to speed, or the rules could somehow balance it out.....well, Stoner would probably be where he is still, but I really believe that the Spies, Lorenzo's ect would be
way in front of the Dovi's, Simo's ect.
It's like Stoner on the Duck when Lorenzo was winning.........is Lorenzo that much better ?.........I don't belive so...........Would have been great to watch Stoner on a competetive machine against him.
If we /they could get all the bikes relatively close in performance ( a dream, I know), then we may get to see that type of racing again.
Lets face it, some riders are a cut above the rest..........but none of them are mugs ( that's what we on the sidelines are, who couldn't match the pace of the lowliest of them out there) and too often, the racing sucks because unless you are on the right make of bike that year.........you're rooted.
As an idle, romantic daydream, case in point............what would McCoy have been able to do if he was on as good a bike as Rossi and the like ?
......sure, a world championship is a moot point.........but damn.......we would have seen some ....-hot battles.
That's all in the hands of the Manufacturers, and has been this way since day one. It's just the gaps between good and bad just seem to be getting wider.
Well.....to me anyway......
Is it then something DORNA should be looking at, in as far as rule changes, to close this up ?
They have F1 as a reference point. They've had to be the pioneers in trying all sorts of rule changes to bring the racing back into it, as the thing was dying..........and Bernie was losing $$$$
. ( .......and how .... boring was F1 becoming !...people, not even the die-hards...couldn't really be bothered watching)
Seems to be paying off. I hope DORNA can do it better, and sooner.
I wouldn't like to think that this sport lets it slide for as long as F1 did before doing something.
The trick would be, in not making it turn into WSBK....no mean feat.......I have no answers........only a dream of a large, competetive grid.
My personal opinion is that 800/990 is going to make .... all of a difference in regards to closer racing........but here's hoping, eh !.
Control tyres seem a step in the right direction. ( remember the Michelene A and B tyres ?.......the A's were worth what, a second a lap ? that was pretty crappy..........and glad that it's gone)
Unfortunately for you and I.....there will always be clowns.
Best we accept that bit.......bag them out and hope the bikes get closer in performance.
A good race always goes someway to nullifying the Vaudville bit for me...........or revving me up in the hope that the quiet bloke beats the clown next time out to shut him up and make him look silly ( er)
