Berlin

I've just watched the Indy MotoGP on I player and following on from a conversation I had a week back, Whats the point of the riders any more?

Looking at the black stripes left in (some of) the corners, they are all the same length. The traction control is giving the exact result each lap on the same corner.

Not only that, the bikes are now programmed to give a certain amount of power for individual corners.

So, combined with the ABS, electronic suspension control, Anti Wheelie and anti spin, with the simple addition of a counter steering device, the bike could travel around the track completely riderless. Just plug in the telemetry data from the practice sessions and off it would go.

Give it a quick shove out of the pit lane and it could quite happily make its way round for 30 laps and it would save the team 20 million for the riders.

That way they could spend more on electronics and the bikes would be lighter so the lap times would come down!

I bet you could get a bike with no rider to come in the top ten now.

Sad really!.

C