Hear Hear Seb:cool:
Either that or bring back the days where you could buy an YZR500 factory bike at an “affordable cost” and be half way competitive with the works stuff.
It costs millions to be competitive these days and most of the kit is only leased anyway:doze:
Go back to proper GP racing with two strokes !
Best way to improve the racing… I’d like to see some of the so-called prodigies wrestle a 2T 500 round - would be a high-side fest 
!but the premier class shouldn’t be production based…F1 would be very poor if they were all parading round in Mondeos wouldn’t it…"
Well you never know it might make it exciting to watch.
BTCC used to be really exciting, but then they started pissing around with the rules…
Formula 1 used to be really exciting, but then they started pissing around with the rules…
Jan 2 (Reuters) - Sports news in brief from around the world on Friday.
Motorcycling - Aspar Team chief Jorge Martinez has said he is in talks to take over the Kawasaki MotoGP team after media reported that the Japanese manufacturers were planning to pull out of the 2009 championship.
“Negotiations to take over the two Kawasaki (bikes) have started,” former 80cc and 125 cc world champion Martinez, who already has teams in the 125 and 250 classes, told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“I don’t know with certainty when or if this opportunity will become reality. I’m willing to negotiate. We’ll see.”
Lets hope it all works out in the end.
Without the development in the prototype Motogp (the F1 of biking) series we wouldn’t have the technological progress we see in our road bikes and therefore WSB (the touring cars of bike racing).
The fewer teams producing and experimenting in this premiership series the worse it will be for all of us. It doesn’t matter whether you like the series or your personal attitude toward the racing. The reality is that if there are fewer manufacturers competing and pushing the development envelope the worse it is for the progression of motorcycling as a whole.
COME ON JORGE!!
+1
sorry havent been around for a while, catching up
bet Hopkins is kicking himself, muppet went for the cash
As mentioned, I hope Kawasaki now plough development into their production bike based racing efforts.
Things look promising in super sport this year with their 09 ZX6R said to be a class beater.
Imagine the MotoGP tech they could filter down to the production class. We may even see the previously rumoured ‘ZX10RR’ make an appearance,
