Always love the cost excuse. They'll just find other ways to spend the same money on improvements no matter how small. Have a feeling it comes fro those spending a bunch and not actually accomplishing anything
During the track walk on thursday night, there was a blower truck blasting us in the fast with debris. Fucking asshole. You could also see that they had recently shaved the pavement on the whole track to smooth things out. Maybe the shaving was done recently and hasn't cleaned up yet.
Meanwhile......Aprilia is now putting winglets on their street bikes. This is like watching the local squids doing leg dangles as they slow down to turn into the Starbucks parking lot.
Aprilia actually says they do not actually add any downforce. So they cost money They look dumb They add zero perfomance. Still is going to sell out.
The lols. A few years ago, me and friends were joking on producing winglets for Panigales and selling them to idtio Ducatisti. Guess we weren't that far off.
Indeed, which may possibly be why Aprilia is doing this? https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/wsbk/world-superbike-winglet-rule/
If the OEM has wings, I imagine they could use them. And if those wings worked, they probably would use them on whichever version of the bike was used for homologation. I think.