Originally Posted by sinbad

I understand the argument for tyre development, competition breeds innovation etc etc, but this is motorcycle racing. Moto GP is about prototype motorcycles and world-class riders operating them. Both of which can be rendered redundant because of the little black hoops that nobody really cares about anyway. How many fans of motorcycle racing would be genuinely saddened if it went to a single tyre manufacturer?

It's arguably one of the best things that has happened to F1 in some time, WRC also. Superbike racing does not suffer for it, why would moto GP? People buy their tickets to see the best bikes in the world, to see the best riders in the world, and to see them, above all, competing. If the tyres were dead level nobody would give a hoot which tyre a bike is fitted with. It's only when the system knackers the whole bloody thing with a significant advantage one way or the other that there's even a discussion. Who wants to see a manufacturer or rider win primarily because they're on a certain tyre? Who wants to see riders and manufacturers' work shot to pieces because they're saddled with rubbish tyres? Not me.

They should just all be made by the same people but come with different stickers and be delivered by different lorries.