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kirklet
10/11/2007 at 18:17
Like to hear your opinions on this. Do you think they should be banned or leave it as it is? I say ban them for two reasons :

1) It's less complicated and gives a true impression of race pace.

2) It's more enviromentally friendly and will keep the tree huggers/yoghurt weavers at bay for a while longer

And also would you be in favour of a change to the qualifying format? I quite like watching the whole Superpole session in WSB, it certainly makes for good viewing and would eradicate any laps being bolloxed up by riders plodding along on the racing line.
STIG63
10/11/2007 at 18:25
How can you weave yogurt?
kirklet
10/11/2007 at 18:33
I assume it would require a natural enviromentally friendly 'drying out' process. I'm no expert tbh
cucumber
10/11/2007 at 22:50
mmmmmmmmmmm yogurt :burp:
fontyy
11/11/2007 at 18:56
How do you propose banning tyres of a certain compound?
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kirklet
11/11/2007 at 19:08
I'm not proposing anything mate, just asking a question

I can't imagine it would be that hard to police if it ever came about.
Jenko
11/11/2007 at 19:48
I'd leave it as it is. It's easy to work out who the consistant fast riders are in qualifying. when someone jumps up from p nowhere to the top of the leaderboard it's obv they'll be going backwards in the race.

I like the superpole in wsbk but i wouldn't want it in moto gp. it's nice that there's a difference between the two.
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fontyy
11/11/2007 at 21:20
kirklet wrote
I'm not proposing anything mate, just asking a question

I can't imagine it would be that hard to police if it ever came about.

I think it would be impossibe to police, what defines a "qualifier"?
Whats the difference between that and a soft race tyre?
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kirklet
11/11/2007 at 23:15
fontyy wrote
Whats the difference between that and a soft race tyre?


20ish laps ?
stoo
11/11/2007 at 23:58
I suppose you could add a rule where you have to start the race on the same spec tyre as the one you set your qualifying time on...

Can't really see that it'd be worth it though...
Anteater
12/11/2007 at 13:14
kirklet wrote

2) It's more enviromentally friendly and will keep the tree huggers/yoghurt weavers at bay for a while longer


You'd still use a tyre to qualify, so the carbon & rubber saving would be, err, nowt.

kirklet wrote

And also would you be in favour of a change to the qualifying format? I quite like watching the whole Superpole session in WSB, it certainly makes for good viewing and would eradicate any laps being bolloxed up by riders plodding along on the racing line.


But.... but.... I'd miss Hoppers mid corner karate kicks to all and sundry who dare to be on the bit of track he thinks belongs to him
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oliverdupuy
12/11/2007 at 20:28
I think they should let the satellite teams do their qually laps.....

then flood the circuit for the factory bikes That would even things up a bit.

Vermeulen would be on pole every race though :burnout:
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nick31
15/11/2007 at 16:10
Leave it as it is IMO. I enjoy watching the qual session "develop". Superpole is OK, but theres nothing like the last 5 mins of a good GP qual session !
Bladerideressex
15/11/2007 at 16:14
Id ban them ! qualifying tyres seems an utterly futile excercise and one which we all comment on every time we watch MotoGP.....

Easy to monitor from within the teams normal tyre allocation for the race weekend anyway I would guess.....

The last 5 mins is only where its at because of the qualifiers...if they werent there then the entire session would be far more interesting!
JamesZX-6R
15/11/2007 at 16:21
too hard to police. You cant say a team has to use a tyre because they qualified on it, it might not be safe to use over 30 laps. What if its a wet qualifying and a dry race, do you start on wet tyres cos you qualified on them.

Poor idea. go back and try again.

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stoo
15/11/2007 at 17:23
JamesZX-6R wrote
too hard to police. You cant say a team has to use a tyre because they qualified on it, it might not be safe to use over 30 laps. What if its a wet qualifying and a dry race, do you start on wet tyres cos you qualified on them.


Sounds like a great idea.

Pit stops and wheel changes a plenty. Should at least bring some excitement back into the "racing" since MotoGP turned into an F1 style bore-a-thon.
zxtim
15/11/2007 at 18:00
Get rid of qualifying altogethor and start the race in the reverse order of championship standings!
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