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18.04.2007, 23:21
I don't like the sound of segregating the premier class and keeping them in their own separate pit area and away from the lower classes.....it's a sort of snobery....like looking down on them. Anyhow about 97% of riders in the premier class worked their way through the lower cc ranks. I don't think it'll bring much in the way of big sponsorship deals their way but rather reduce any sponsorship for the 125 & 250cc classes instead.
Doing what is proposed here with separate pit areas for the 800cc's could well back fire on the IRTA and reduce the number of teams and riders taking part in the lower classes, possibly even causing a lot of the privater teams not to run because of no sponsors being interested in them due a stigma that will no doubt be given to and associated with 'cheap (lower) classes'.
It could even end up costing the IRTA the future of MotoGP.
It's daft thinking of going in the same direction as F1 with this sort of thing. Lets face it F1 is failing miserably compared to MotoGP......F1 are trying to get their sport viewed as a whole in the way that MotoGP is now, they've said so on numerous occasions. I mean they even tried to pinch Valentino from MotoGP to go race in F1 just to bring the much needed personality injection F1 is screaming out for ......PLEASE don't bring down MotoGP the way F1 has been dragged down!
I say - if it ain't broke, don't fix it !!!!
Angela O from Liverpool-England XXXXxxxxxx (first registered 30/9/2002) |