cc limit is one thing. but with the bore limit you force 4 cylinders to get to the cc limit.
both kill engine innovation.
what was everybody using before the bore limit? that's right, 4-cylinders.
same with the spec ecu coming.
let's get back to this in a sec...
at least in WSBK you get to pick your motor configuration and cc limits are the way to even things out.
to me, WSBK is even more adventurous than MotoGP, yes ok, they have to be based on production bikes. but that production bike can be pretty damn ingenious if they want it to be.
yes, but most of that ingenuity has be homolgated and sold to the public. there's an inherent cost-containment aspect to this.
fwiw, there are things on the production bikes that aren't allowed on the race bikes. active suspension (bmw and ducati), for example.
fixing MotoGP... build some rules around weights/cc's/max electronics then let them go.
current rules are (simplified) minimum weight and max bore. how do you enforce "max electronics"? that's right, spec ecu (just like formula 1).
The best times in F1 in my opinion... 3.5l motors, a max on intake TB and the rest is up to you...
there were V10, V8, V12..
yup, and a big "performance limiter" in those days, iirc, were the tires.
what do we have now in GP, V4/I4 because of the bore limit.
i'd loved to see a Triumph triple in there along with Ducati bringing a kick as twin. and maybe a Guzzi 6 cyl
you have 4-cylinders because that's what works. honda tried a twin in the 90s, they canned it. roberts tried a triple in the late 90s, early-2000s. not competitive. in the 990 era, honda built a 5-cylinder "because they could," and then went back to a 4-cylinder.
the bore limit, quit simply, reduces cost. otherwise some manufacturer with super-deep pockets would try to build an ultra-high-revving motor out of unobtainium.
if you removed the bore limit, ducati isn't going to come out w/ a gp twin. if they thought it would work, they would've already done it (when the rules allowed it).
dont even get me started on the moto2/3 crap.
best on-track racing in the series.
spec motors... NASCAR anyone? putting everyone on the same bike.. sure in a series race like the 848 challenge.. but prototype-spec? that the hell is that?
you apparently don't know the regulations.
I love the tech spectacle just as much as the racing.
i love the tech, too, but the manufacturers can still innovate within the bounds of a rule structure.
