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VintageBlueSmoke:
It is crazy but before the rule, F1 engine builders were building engines to last just 5 laps! The current rules dictate the total number of engines per year AND how many races they must go before changing them without penalty. The penalty in motocross would have to be different because if F1 it is determined by starting grid position (-10). Same for gearboxes.
In motocross, about nobody "builds" the engines. They are all box stock factory and are sent to just a handful of "specialty" aftermarket tuners. In F1, there are 4 manufacturers who supply the 11 teams. In theory (by contract) the factory team and the leasing teams have the same engine (except Ferrari which the leased engines are 1 version behind). There is no way to get the engine - it doesn't come in any road car. Even if you buy a couple of year old race car for personal/museum use, you have to rent the engine. The engine comes with engineers and mechanics. The technology is just as secret and just as protected as any military nuke.
I am not saying that MX should adopt F1 rules directly. It could however use some of the cost cutting enforcements (such as limiting the number of engines and number of races per). It would help MX both the rich and poorer rich riders.
Stusmoke:
--- Quote from: VintageBlueSmoke on October 06, 2013, 05:00:57 PM ---It is crazy but before the rule, F1 engine builders were building engines to last just 5 laps! The current rules dictate the total number of engines per year AND how many races they must go before changing them without penalty. The penalty in motocross would have to be different because if F1 it is determined by starting grid position (-10). Same for gearboxes.
In motocross, about nobody "builds" the engines. They are all box stock factory and are sent to just a handful of "specialty" aftermarket tuners. In F1, there are 4 manufacturers who supply the 11 teams. In theory (by contract) the factory team and the leasing teams have the same engine (except Ferrari which the leased engines are 1 version behind). There is no way to get the engine - it doesn't come in any road car. Even if you buy a couple of year old race car for personal/museum use, you have to rent the engine. The engine comes with engineers and mechanics. The technology is just as secret and just as protected as any military nuke.
I am not saying that MX should adopt F1 rules directly. It could however use some of the cost cutting enforcements (such as limiting the number of engines and number of races per). It would help MX both the rich and poorer rich riders.
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Thats true. Thanks to the production rule they have some limits on what they can do. Was it Damon Bradshaw that left AMA racing after the production rule was enforced because he had to ride an actual YZ125?
VintageBlueSmoke:
Bradshaw moved to the big bikes. He just couldn't beat the Factory Hondas. Being 'first loser' (second place) didn't sit well with him and he'd ride (WAY) over his head to compensate...started gettign hurt.
He went on to other things. I saw him at a vintage race a little while back...on a 125...Husqvarna!
LukeG:
Found this good video today giving one a flogging.
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