BMW pull ot of WSBK.

Those race engineers are having a shit time of it. First Ducati crap on them and now BMW. I hope they all find jobs as they're a good crew.

 

Wow, didnt expect to be reading that

 

I guess its done what it set out to do with the S1000RR, show the world its sports bike is a serious offering

 

WSB is only a thinly hidden form of prototype racing series. It is and needs to evolve (be dumbed down) to get the companies interested again. Until this happens companies will drop out. Also remember BMW are a small company, who could spend their money on better things than racing. GS's outsell the sports bikes, so it's fairly meaningless for them.

MotoGP will also be made simpler, CRT will be given "advantages" and before long there won't be much to choose between them, apart from cost.

 

BMW, as small company, are you serious? what does that make Ducati then...microscopic

Personally, I think BMW's statement translates to "we've tried to win WSBK with a big budget for 5 years now and failed dismally, so we're not playing any more as it's getting far too embarrassing" LOL

 

Yep, gotta feel for them engineers over the last few years, wonder how long it will be before Audi look across the fence at their German neighbours and wonder why the fuck are we persisting with both motogp and wsbk.

interest from sponsors must surely have faded for both classes in the last couple of years, and sponsors want exposure for there brand and that ain't happening on woeful Ducati's not at the sharp end of things, so I would suspect revenues will start to fall at same time development costs start to rise as they chase the pack. Something's gotta give shortly at Ducati aswell me thinks?

 

Or Moto GP project with one rider who hasn't signed for next year yet?

 

with WSBK dumbing down to WSSTK under DORNA , whey need a full factory team? A pro race team will do nicely...

 

So much for the BMW Rennsport tradition.

I find this disappointing. They were 1 and 2 in the last race. Aren't they going to stick around to win a world championship? They've clearly decided that winning races is far too exciting for their target market of dull touring types.

 

Is this ot like Ducati tho, i.e. support race teams rather than be one? And as we all know, some customer bikes will be more even than others...and imagine the revenue they can generate to pay for racing development rather than funding a team and development. Even if it was cost neutral, that wold tick e bean counters box

 

You've said it.

Let the bean counters run your business and you soon won't have one. Bean counters never invented anything, have no idea what the market wants.

You have bean counters to make sure that the innumerate marketing types (they shouldn't be innumerate if they are any good, but hey..) don't live in cloud cuckoo land. But at the end of the day, it's creative types with vision that make superb products and build companies. Not accountants.

Ducati are a case in point. Driven by passion (which you find in their products) not suits.

 

Think you will find they are all run by suits. Just some more overtly than others.

 

When the top suit comes from an accountancy background, you've had it.

 

+1. There will still be support for the top teams from BMW but with rule changes in place next year and more changes planned for 2015 to level the playing field is it necessary to have a full factory team. Hopefully the new rules will be close enough to BSB to allow wildcards again and the ducati won't have to run ridiculous air restrictors

 

Do any of the teams actually run a full factory outfit? Ducati didn't and neither have BMW. They used professional race teams to run their operation with just a couple of key factory employees to oversee the contractors.