With all this talk of production based MotoGP bikes I can that the days of the unique bikes that the likes of Rossi and Co ride will be given their marching orders very soon. I expect to see Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda et al, seeing sense and leveling the playing field for everyone to have ago. I hope I'm right, it might make it more interesting. New talented faces on the top step. It is very disappointing that we had to wait for Stoner to retire before any kind of significant shake up happened. My fingers are crossed, but they may have to stay crossed for a couple of years yet.
Mystic Kev .I think there is a few more years yet to come before any real drastic changes are underway .
I hope for 1 that prototypes stay otherwise it's just WSB. Something will change, but with the curent climate looking up lets hope new sponsors come and we get lots of good talent in the future riding prototypes
The current MotoGP is not sustainable in the current climate and has not been for some time now. WSB needs to return to its roots and be based more on road bike spec engines, they've been allowed to tinker too much and that has allowed road bikes to stagnate. Only Aprillia and possibly BMW have allowed good stuff to trickle through to their road bikes. It all needs one big shake up to see more, equally competitive bikes on the grids and non of this rubbish of giving "works" bike more room for tinkering. CRT was a pathetic attempts to disguise the fact that the grids were empty. If they don't do something soon I can't see who will want to pay BT/Dorna/MotoGP.com for the privilege of watching a procession of 6 bikes for the next 5 years. I think Suzuki know more than they can let on, hence they've held off until 2015 mores the pity.
But if you look at all forms of Motorsport the grids have got smaller not just motogp, BMW have pulled out of a lot of different areas and so have the other manufacturers! At least honda and yamaha are trying to levels things with the production "factory" bikes so to speak. Suzuki only didn't come back this year mainly due to the tyre regs and that they would have had to pay for their tyres as new entries and not got them free like yamaha and honda do
I thought dorna tagged onto the tyre rules for Suzuki that they had to join an existing team like gresini Honda which would become gresini Suzuki for example, dorna said they couldn't just join the grid as a new team because they have left before and this tie in was supposed to stop them just packin up n headin home if it all went pear shaped with there new bikes results! Honda have openly came out and said if dorna push thru their idea of same spec'd ECU usage for everyone by 2017 they would pull out of motogp's top tier as there is no reason for them to spend the money if they can't use it for R&D!
I think MotoGp should be like F1,.As prototypes without any aids.No quickshifters,no TC,no ABS and seamless gearboxes.Racing as it should be by talent of the team and rider and not the aids it has. Maybe do 3/4 of the race on a set of tyres then remaining 1/4 on another tyre,team must do a pitstop with two men mandatory.If it rains or stops during race a pitstop can be made as many as they like. All the rider aids could be put on WSB's as they are for R&D in the bike market.Again a pitstop must be made. Superstock bikes should be everything standard inc tyres.This would push the R&D to the market so we get better bikes.
I am not so sure about forced pit stops. I prefer the race to be about the rider and the machine, with the team having done their stuff before the race.
I quite like the idea of a pitstop, like one if the races last year where Márquez messed up and came in to late being his or Honda's fault who knows. But this for me added a bit more excitement to the race as it was something new and gave it a little more drama. I do agree the whole thing needs a big shake up, I don't think I would like to see the prototypes go as these bikes are the pinnacle of what can be achieved with a motorbike and I know many years down the line the benefits of these technology's filter down to the road bikes.
It could still be the pinnacle, but everyone on the grid would have it. Not just those that can bring in the Repsol money. Forced pit stops are a bit contrived. F1, oh yes you have to pit stop in F1 to put on rubbish tyres, where is the sense in that? You want them racing 100% flag to flag, not slowing down because they've had to change to crap tyres. The teams will just add to their costs having to employ strategists.
Weight penalties for the midget riders would level the playing field so rider and machine would all way the same, perhaps bring back the other tyre brands
We certainly need more tyre manufacturers in the series. After all why should Bridgestone get all the tyre development rights? Yes, on the grid they should all weight the same.
prototypes all the way please , stay with no ship to shore radio and pit stops if it rains as is now , bring back open tyres one make to level the field i dont think so ,plenty of differnt bikes just have not worked on the bridgestones but could have on dunlops or michelins ect, it shopul always be the breaking edge of new tech , i do agree with a weight penalty / limit of bike and rider . wsb has gone too far with engine tech and chassis set up , unless you can buy it at local dealers on monday it should not be on the grid . it has turned into a sillioute class . i dont get dorna not allowing other factorys back even for a race if tyres are free for some then why not all. i long for suzuki and kawasaki to be back on the grid as it should be . Oh hang on if the control ecu comes in do you think we will see mcpint on an rcv hurtling down bray hill dear god i would love that !
