holy shit, thats a lot of great info the WSBK ECU regulations are a mess and its trickling down into MA.
Ditch the fancy schmancy electronics. Use what BSB uses. Use exactly what BSB uses. It works. Contrary to what the naysayers think ditching TC won't lead to riders launching themselves to the moon. That hasn't been the case at all. But whoever MotoAmerica chooses as a provider they should also provide tech support included or at a reduced rate. With a factory rep on hand at every event. One make, one choice across the board. Maybe selfish of me because I think all the electronic wizardry on superbikes both on the track and in the showroom is boring. Don't care one bit about how many levels of wtf it has. And it's not needed to have exciting racing. If anything it has proven over and over to take away from it.
Brilliant article. I'm glad Danny is sharing all of that with the world. I hope he and his team come back some day.
I hate reading this but glad it is out in the open and hopefully MA can fix it. I remember JU saying the fancy electronics were a problem a few years ago.
Does anyone else think this may have had something to do with Ten Kate's relationship ending with Honda in WSBK?
once a series goes spec ECU, they can probably pick whatever functionality they want. itd be cool if MA tailored the functionality to whatever works for the available talent in the teams. are there only 2 guys in the US that can adequately tune turn-by-turn anything... then don't include turn-by-turn. are there plenty of tuners that can do non-turn-by-turn TC and EB... include it. MA SBK could run the Moto2 Spec ECU. and so should MA SS. simple TC, EB, and LC, but no turn-by-turn changes. maybe. TenKate was the reference team for Honda in WSBK. someone defined an electronics package that all Hondas had to use and only TenKate or Honda could change the software for that reference hardware. if they changed the software, they had to share it. but TenKate didnt even start running that hardware at the beginning of the year. and who knows how much help they got from Honda with it. the whole concept of reference teams when some of them arent factory teams is silly IMO.
That is a huge WOW! But I bet you that Yamaha and Yosh push to keep it because they’ve got the lock on making that stuff work.
ahh, missed that recently. it was included in the spec that Dorna required for the new ECU, which highlights my point further. Dorna thinks is not necessary for 2019 and wants to keep the racing good. so they adjusted the ECU functionality. itd be awesome if MA had that control over the class.
Honestly that seems to make ALOT of sense to me as well. Start everyone off with minimum capability activated or whatever, since resources are scarce and the team with the $$$ will get the resources - then as more people learn and systems become easier to handle - increase the capability of the software step by step if you "need" to have SBKs with modern electronics in your series. ** edit ** The moto2 ecu setups are MM based kits though. So I would assume there is serious potential for failure unless you have some MotoGP/Dorna style pull to make them deliver the goods for all the teams.