Time for a change in racing?

More variety of approaches would just mean the closeness of competition would suffer, and in the end we as spectators of motorsport complain about that more than anything.

[Biker Biggles]

Isnt the new 600 gp class going to be a build your own bike around a standard engine?Be interesting to see how that pans out.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Isnt the new 600 gp class going to be a build your own bike around a standard engine?Be interesting to see how that pans out.

I believe that is how its going to work.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Isnt the new 600 gp class going to be a build your own bike around a standard engine?Be interesting to see how that pans out.

Yea but even if they've got the same engine wont the big multi million £ companies still be able to develop their frames and suspension etc more than Joe Blogs Racing.

Wouldn't it be more fun to have 2 races, have qualifying etc as normal for race 1 then make the top riders have to add weight (similar to BTCC) or reverse the grid or summet similar?

So that the pack can get shuffled and the championship becomes closer and hopefully one day we'll have it where any 1 of 6 or 7 riders could win the championship on the last race day that would be a good race to watch.

Originally Posted by FlyinCustard

Yea but even if they've got the same engine wont the big multi million £ companies still be able to develop their frames and suspension etc more than Joe Blogs Racing.

Wouldn't it be more fun to have 2 races, have qualifying etc as normal for race 1 then make the top riders have to add weight (similar to BTCC) or reverse the grid or summet similar?

So that the pack can get shuffled and the championship becomes closer and hopefully one day we'll have it where any 1 of 6 or 7 riders could win the championship on the last race day that would be a good race to watch.

R.e your first paragraph, I'm not sure how that will pan out. There will obviously be technical regulations for materials and more importantly minimum weight. Of course any team that can afford to test and develop more than another will have an advantage, at least at first, but it's good to know that there won't be any horsepower disparity.
The thing that interests me most about the new 600 class is whether it will attract riders that wouldn't have considered 250gp, will it be seen as a step up from Supersports 600 for instance, or will it remain purely a 125 graduate destination? Will we see riders from outside of GP being "trialled" in the 600 GP class rather than going straight into a satellite motogp ride?

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Generally I don't really like systems which "reward" failure, ballast, reversed grids, in the case of touring cars "balancing" of the class to give slower cars/teams a leg-up. Obviously they all know the rules going in to it, but to me it just seems a bit shallow and undermines the competition to an extent. I don't think bike racing requires this sort of system in the way that touring cars apparently does nowadays.