I've calmed down a little now. The thing is, it's all moved on, it was always going to move on, and if it didn't there'd be no point in doing it in the first place!! The whole point of bike racing to me is that not only is the riders skill tested to the limit, but also the mechanical side as well.
There's always been a form of "not what you know, but how much you got" in motorsport, be that bikes, cars, anything. So the romantic notion that this is a fairly new phenomenon is, to be honest, rubbish.
No, I don't think the "show is going down hill". Certainly it was dull as dishwater last year (MotoGP wise) but I still loved watching it, and indeed going to the UK round. 12 bikes on the grid this year would have been desparate, but, and you can slag it all you want, CRT is helping redress that. Also, I loved watching and going to WSBK, and indeed the BSB last year, and cannot wait for the season to start again.
If you're wistfully wishing for the halcyon days of the 60's, I think, and with the greatest of respect here, you might wanna check your facts. From what I've seen, the French GP that year only had 16 finishers. So unless the attrition rate was utterly horrific, there wasn't the 40 or so riders "belting into the first corner".
Posted: 20/01/2012 at 15:40
