07-18-2006, 12:03 PM
stevegula Wrote:It doesn't favor anyone really.
Right, the best riders will always find their way to the front. But the riding style required to go fast on the 4-strokes is much different than the 500cc two-strokes -
I think that the riding style that most of the 250 guys bring in is more easily adapted to the 4-strokes than the 2-strokes.... where as when they were on the 500's, the superbike "style" was more easily adapted to the GP bikes.
In Rossi's book he wrote about how he crashed alot on his first year on 500's because he was trying to ride it like a 250.
stevegula Wrote:But remember, Superbike has traction control. In fact, it's either the Ducs or the Suzukis but they have rider-adjustable-on-the-fly traction control.
In WSBK, only Ducati and Suzuki have traction control. The honda teams are developing a system on their bikes and should be ready soon. Until yesterday, traction control has been banned. Suzuki had some sort of workaround, although not sure how effective it was. The 250 is still more of a cornerspeed bike than the superbikes, traction control or not.
Also, the 2 recent americans that have made it over from the US into Moto GP (hayden, hopkins) have had a push into the series, they havent been actively recruited by the GP teams the way the 250 and WSBK riders had been.