| | | | MotoGP : Dark future for 2 strokes bikes |  Written: 19/09/2007 : 11:26. Read 1533 times (6/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | After the project of the creation of two new classes with 200cc and 400cc 4strokes to replace 125 and 250cc 2 strokes. DORNA thinks about a new kind of project for the 250cc.
Prototype frame and 600cc stock engine...
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What a sad idea...
The main rules : chassis free, no composite wheels.
Engine stock, 600cc max and 4 cylinders max. Engine rev limited, admission limited, pneumatic valves forbidden.
The first to speek was Harald Bartol, manager of KTM Team.
He is quoted from MCN :
« The costs will explode. As now, 125 and 250 for growing up in racing and coming to MotoGP is the best situation. As we know, it is coming from only one company. »
Harald Bartol does not said the name of the company but of course he was talking about Honda.
Honda is already the origin of the first project (200cc/400cc four strokes) and also to the new 800cc rules in MotoGP. Now the japanese corporation seems to want to expand their egemony to the small displacement bikes.
Because they are incompetent to make performant 2 strokes, Honda try to use of their power to set to the DORNA their rules.
Create its own rules to be able to have the perfect bike straight away (We have a little impression of « deja vu »).
Honda puts pressure on DORNA :
“They are pushing from the other side. Last year they said 2012. Then it was too quiet for a long time but it was coming through the back door, to Dorna, » said Harald Bartol.
Bartol insists : « If we go to 600 this is bad for racing. I am not sticking to two-strokes, but it should be a proper race bike. Not donkey racing, with a 600.
This is a big lump of iron. Six-hundreds are racing already, so why do the same thing? »
Then now few qestions are running thru my mind...
Why two strokes are as hated as that?
We have currently spectacular races, fast races, its also pure prototypes (because 2 strokes are now very rare on the market)... But the main advantage is the relative low cost of these bikes.
With a small amount of money, young riders could easily show them to team managers...
Why would they want to change a so efficient and spectacular formula?
Why would they want to change it in an expansive and hard to reach championship?
At last I would like to talk a ...
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