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Pomona NY
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Thailand
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Do the opposite of what they are doing? Allow more engines and fuel to make outright horsepower irrelevent. In other worlds make the bikes fast as hell just like like a 990 was and put a chicane in the middle of the straight, so there is no use for 6th gear.
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Tuscany, Italy
Why, are they controlling them? Doesn't seem so...
15,000 rpm would probably help more in cutting costs and speeds than fuel limits or bore limits, but then how are they going to differentiate from SBK? Why not merge the two series at that point?
Now, having only one big World Series -- that would be an effective cost cutting measure.
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Southern Aridzona - Hell's doorstep.
Is it about controlling costs, or about making it affordable to compete? Because they aren't mutually exclusive, IMO.
If the rules weren't so stringent, you could run all sorts of engines. Sure the HRCs and Yamaha's of the world will still want to spend millions to win, but when some smart cookie from engine design school gets his weirdo push-me-pull-you engine working and is competitive at a cost 1/5th of that of HRC, they will start to see that an outright materials arms race is less productive than smart engineering.
I think the problem started when Dorna decided to regulate the hell out of everything.
With a simple formula like 1000cc, any cylinders, 150kg minimum weight (to remove the need for expensive lightweight compositse) no fuel limit, we would see more prototypes like the Csysz and Britten and such.
With no regulations about production v prototype, we would see the reallly fast boys from SBK pushing the GP guys along, then improving thier product further.
Stoner was right - the reason for the costs is the ever-changing playing field. It isn't like 500GP got boring, did it? They said it was too fast - but it took no time at all for MotoGP to break all 500GP records.
If they settled for something simple like an RPM limit, that wold keep speeds relatively safe.
But really, I want to see a return to 'run whatcha brung' with very few rules. I want to see a new breed of V4 500cc FI 2 strokes!
NAHHH ROSSI WILL NEVER RETIRE...Cuz Its hard to upstage Valentino Rossi is it??? Casey Stoner did!!!. It takes something larger more significant, to take the limelight away from the nine-time World Champion (9 times ........ champion cauz he can RIDE THE DUCATI WHICH IS A REAL BIKE hahahaa (, and the man who has been the charismatic heart of MotoGP (the man who has been the court jester of motogp in another words the clown of motogp) for the best part of 15 years(wow wow what a clown he’s been and the joke is on us because he’s been making so much money in the past and now even though he hasn’t been winning races…we’ve been taken for a ride!!! And even now motogp are interviewing him for his opinion…HAT A JOKE THIS GUY IS) doing his clowning and his for 15 yrs wow…wow). To do that, you have to "Go big or go home," as British road racer Guy Martin likes to put it. And Rossi won’t GO HOME IN 2013 because now he has some sort of glory because Stoner won’t be there in 2013 and he might have a chance…but he wont have any if he’s on the Ducati cauz he cant ride the thing…heheeee…maybe he will take over from Stoner on the Honda…but Honda hate him so good luck Valentino and where you will end up???
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