And Jack Burnicle has to make way and just do MX now I think. I really liked him alongside Whit commentating on BSB.
The Ducati is allowed to rev harder because as a road bike it revs to 16k rpm, and therefore it's race rev limit is based off of what the production one can do. The rules are no different...... Infact it's Kawasaki that got the wind knocked out of their sales last year, when they tried to declare that the new ZX10-RR was a new model therefore they should be allowed 700 odd more revs, and they got blocked because they hadn't changed the rev limit on the road bike.
Was a nice try by kwak but you’ve got to wonder. The zx10 is older than most of the riders in the paddock
yeah, tbh they have been pushing their luck WAY more than others other than perhaps Ducati, look at the frame on the ZX10, there are sections around the sprocket where their are big plates welded into it... it's almost prototype stuff.... I think Ducati are playing on a more level playing field than they ever have tbf. It's £35k for the V4R but at least it's a really special bike, I don't think the same can be said for any iteration of the zx10
Older and faster. Cheaper and more reliable. Hold on...that sounds like me. Esp the older and cheaper bit.
Yeah I don’t know about the current bikes this year but certainly over the last few years Ducati’s race bikes have been taking the piss as well. There was virtually nothing even remotely stock on most of the superbikes I saw including in bsb. And the amount of engines the teams went through ! Nuts. It’s more like a silhouette class like British touring cars where they sort of look like the road car but it’s just a shell to make it look like it. Underneath there’s nothing, not even the chassis.
completely agree, infact the rules somehow changed at some point I'm sure, because on Haga's Yamaha R1's pre-big bang, he had two pipes under the tail but one was blocked off, they apparently didn't need it for sound or power but had to keep it as it was a silhouette of the road bike. Likewise there was some concern when Foggy tested a 998 with dual sided swingarm and 888 style pipes, as it was deemed not to be in the spirit of the rules. Anyway, bit off topic... I think Bautista has a lovely style, but I'm yet to see him survive under serious pressure. Rea and Stoprak are just next level in the pressure that they are able to sustain consistently. Did anyone see Stoprak drifting the front wheel in on the brakes at times as well? maybe easier on the pirelli than say a MotoGP tyre but the bike control over the limit is incredible. Rea was the same in terms of the amount of brake right up to the apex, just looked like it was going to fold everywhere. I'd love to see Dani Pedrosa in superbikes, I think he'd be amazing on something like an R1...
No idea who is commentating for the ITV4 highlights program but I’ll be watching with the sound muted. Sounds like he’s modelled his delivery on a cross between Rimmer from Red Dwarf and John Motson Andy
Been going on for 20+ years hasn't it? A mate of mine who raced privateer in BSB was running an ex-Renegade 998RS, he had two 996R's also, he tried in vain to convert one of the 996R's to RS spec but literally everything was different, frame, subframe, tank, wide track yokes, wheels, discs, swingarm, linkage and that's not even touching the engine. He ended up buying an RS rolling chassis and shoehorned one of his 996R engines in and that became his wet bike. From the first time the V4R race bikes appeared they were so different to the road bike, it is as you say a silhouette class parallel to touring cars. I think a V4RS was in the region of around 250K to build, kind of makes the who 35K limit a bit of a joke.
