So F1 fields the biggest single class?
That fucks your argument right up Spud.
So F1 fields the biggest single class?
That fucks your argument right up Spud.
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Jeez! Trash has a point you know. Budda said if it aint mentioned,,you can't touch it.
Come to think of it, there's no mention of Beer and Spirits either, so I'll be givin up the wicked fluid.
It must mention cocks somewhere though, coz there's a shit load of touchin them goin on here so it must be legal.
"That's rooted!! What's next??"
Wanna borrow my FXR bucket-commuter Billy? I'll take off the number plate....
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
Absolutely not Merv,Thr RG doesnt have enough power to run a dynamo fast enough to make the lights go,
As stated by Budda,If its not mentioned,You cant touch it and I didnt,Just dropped the bike off at the workshop doorway and the next thing I get a call from them saying it seized on the dyno,Fucked if I know how it got on there !!!!
Note, I don't see why a different class/race strategy has to have much of an impact on race time for most if not all other classes. A race day runs from 9:00am to 4:30pm at Manfeild, so even allowing for lunch should still mean at least an hour's track time for each of 6 classes with time for stoppages. No-one can complain about that and it wouldn't be too hard to sort a reasonable class/grade structure.
A side benefit of say A, B, C grades (with races within races?) would be to give some of the current mid-packers something tangible to race for, be it a race podium or the kudos of moving up or maintaining a grade.
There were a couple of things:
The possibility of the F2 grid being oversubscribed ( which seems pretty unlikely this year but in previous years it has happed and on occasion 2 or 3 F2 riders didn't qualify and ended up in clubmans ) so adding 10 - 15 F1 bikes would have made that much more likely.
With cross entering if the F1 grid is oversubscribed F1 bikes get priority.
So with ALL the F1 & F2 bikes mixed ALL the time the likelihood of one or two people NEVER getting a race was a possibility - probably F2 bikes and on current form I'd be one of them !
Of course at the time the decision was made we had no clue that this year the entries would be so dismal.
Another was that cross entering is an "option" for for F2 bikes so only those that want to race with the big boys do it. There was the feeling that some F2 riders might not like being forced to race against superbikes (even though points would be separate they would still be blatting past on the straights)
Traditionally classes have been separated by capacity and usually the class is based on the maximum capacity allowed or "open" very few have a minimum, so if you run an open class bike you were expected to take on all comers in the open class and couldn't expect to run in classes for smaller engines.
So it seemed there were enough reasons NOT to change the format for enough people the vote for the "status quo" won.
Sadly we will never keep "everyone happy"
It will be interesting to see how the F2 / BEARS class works out, if none of the F2 riders object there may be a case for letting the 4 F1 bikes that aren't BEARS bikes join in further down the track (as it were) but of course that's not MY call
ps what are you doing up at 03:45 ? (I've been working - our end of the "Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network" fell over )
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