Dorna seek five-year commitment from Norton

Dwindling grid sizes and Dorna are piling the pressure on the manufacturers to sign up to such a lengthy period? Sack Dorna! It would be great to see another body start a development class of racing.

Posted: 06/09/2010 at 16:54

In fairness it is worth noting that Motoczysz did have a bike ready for entry and had even signed riders after a testing schedule but then DORNA announced a switch to 800cc. The Motoczysz bike has a 990cc engine

Given the limited budget they had at the time the company decided that if they developed an 800cc version of their counter revolving engine they would not have funds available to be competative. They recently announced however that a newer more developed version of their bike would be seeking an entry into WSB as soon as they had sold enough machines to qualify for homogolation

Posted: 06/09/2010 at 17:07

huh? 5 years?.... tell Dorna to go Fck themselves unless they are getting some type of superdeal or something.  What deal at this level goes for 5 years, to much can change plus how is this even right with their "New" rules to help increase the grid.

Posted: 07/09/2010 at 07:24

not that the other teams who pulled out generally make their own engines and want no affiliation with Honda.

Posted: 07/09/2010 at 16:35

Too Fast :

It's obvious you know NOTHING about Norton.

I worked there when the Brian Crichton lead R&D team, designed and built the RC588 within 12 months. Which (you may recall) had huge success in both the domestic championship of the time AND the Senior TT.

Don't bet against Stuart Garner bringing in some outside development big-guns, if they do get the nod in MotoGP.

It's no wonder this country demonstrates so little innovation, with people like you shouting out "No way, no how".

Posted: 07/09/2010 at 20:31