MotoAmerica / Road America 2020 Round 2

With their attorney's what?

Also … mentioning Mladin's name? Seriously? Bad move, IMHO.

 

Guess their attorney missed the part where the bike isn't allowed in the class at the time they were building it per the fim rules.
And on social media they were building it before corona shit shut everything down.

Yes a bigger budget helps no matter what kind of class it is. Testing testing testing ..

Never been a pj fan. He has a very arrogant side.

 

the bike was allowed to run in superstock. Did you read the press release after the first round? All of that was in there.

@linders- you seem to have a comment on every MotoAmerica thread saying what teams should/shouldn’t do. Maybe you should be running one of the teams given all of your knowledge... sarcasm. Easy to talk when you aren’t spending the $.

having said that,
If this bike is so good that you have to add 22 lbs to it why is the other Ducati in the SBK class not dominating? It’s obvious the goal was to balance rider talent and not the bike! In 2015 the new Yamaha R1 superstock bike was finishing races 30+ seconds over second place. Where was the balancing then? MA ran off Aprilia and it will not be long before Ducati is gone. This is not the he way to attract more manufacturers to the Series.

 

what “different configuration” are they running?

seems like their stock bike is doing pretty well.. which is why we are where we are with this.

 

Just another example of corruption in pro racing. Good old boys can't stand being beaten within the rules so they change the rules.

 

If it doesn’t fit your narrative it’s not...

 

So you basically want it to be a spec class?

I mean, Honda and Yamaha and Kawasaki are all different in their own little ways. Are we outlawing anything different now?


And as a second question, if someone shows up to a WERA race with a v4r, will they have to add ballast?

 

it’s funny that when Ducati added wings to motorcycles in motogp everyone laughed. Some people called it cheating.

now we’ve got multiple manufacturers that are putting wings on street bikes.



I guess no one should ever innovate for fear of being called a cheat and being penalized.

no where in the rule book does it state you can’t run a v4....

 

V4 is different configuration from I4 - only point I was making.

The rest is Ford v. Ferrari.

Most of what I’ve read in this thread seems to be based more on individual bias towards rider or brand.

I think it’s funny that a clapped out Suzuki beat the Kaws that day also.

 

So by that rationale the factories shouldn’t have been proud of winning a 600 super sport title back in the day? Based on their team size and budget? They just bought their championships?

 

That’s interesting. At the end of the day, how much different is MA sst1000 from a wera club race? It’s still people paying money, building a bike and lining up to race. Why would you do things differently than MA in this instance? I mean, I’ve read PLENTY of threads on here over the years of people bitching after a WERA race in exactly the same way that Mesa did about the Duc.

so if someone comes to a wera race with a v4r, should they not be imposed the same penalty that you seem to deem fair by MA?

 

Actually I mentioned above the 600 and SBK classes have been the premier classes with factory involvement and TV time and IMO still are.