I don't know shit about the bike but it looks to me like Eslick needs to cut back on the cheeseburgers, and the PBRs...
You will see at least one of them on R1 next year....from the way he has been riding, my guess is Gerloff.
If this is true I really hope somebody else steps up in sstk and the 600s. And that's coming from a bigtime Yamaha fan. Don't want to see 1 team dominate 75% of the classes.
I was hoping more along the lines of upgrade their bikes to Superbike-spec. If for no other reason than I just like to see more fancy bits on the bikes
I hope that works better for them, than it did for Meen and Broaster Chicken. Seems getting those electronics to work at that level is very difficult. Meen has Richard Stamboli, who built his own MotoGP bike, and they seem to still be having problems with the electronics. Aussie Dave dropped back down to SSTK as well, and so did M4 Suzuki.
Richard built his w a Motec system. Much simpler than the Magnelli stuff. From my friends at the pointy end...the MM stuff is very complex
I'd be really happy if either MA would do whatever it takes to bring two or three more full factory teams to SBK (Ducati, Kawasaki, Honda, BMW), OR, if they'd go spec ECU so the privateers had a legitimate chance at placing higher than 5th when a Yosh or Graves bike doesn't crash.
I think the struggle is learning the language of the WSBK spec systems. I was told by a rider on a factory bike that the system that they were required to run acted completely different than the MM stuff they had been running. So much so that time was spent just to figure out how to change basic stuff like auto blip and such!