Rules suggestions that did not make the 2013 Rulebook.
Allow 10 year old Middleweight machines into Lightweight classes.
Allow Ducati 749R into Lightweight classes.
Buell 1125R in Middleweight classes.p
Thanks CCS for not caving to such ridiculous requests.
I am a bit confused as to why someone would even request such ridiculous ideas in the first place. But, still, thanks for holding back the water. Your efforts are appreciated.
Answer: The above mentioned request was not observed in it's entirety, but is a summarization of another's opinion not associated with the request. The justification of the request was also not observed by the committee nor the audience of this forum. For example if you heard an 800cc machine and a 500cc machine as equal in performance as in ultralight, or a 1200cc machine and a 560cc machine in lightweight without hearing the reasoning one would also believe that was ludicrous.
The request was initially for a 15 year old V twin machine to be included into the GP and GT class only. A portion of the justification was just like the SV into Ultralight and a 250GP machine being allowed into lightweight and thunder bike by amending the rules. One of the arguments is that in 2011 the 250 Gp machine was legal for heavyweight formula 40 and not lightweight formula 40 but it was also legal for lightweight GP. The v twin configuration was legal for lightweight formula 40 but not legal for lightweight GP a direct opposite of the 250 GP machine.
It is my opinion that the Ducati 748 and the 250 Gp machine is pretty equally matched. That has been proven to me by the results of a certain 250Gp machine competing this year in the Florida Region. If you consider the Ducati 748 a middle weight machine, then I believe you must draw the same conclusion for the 250Gp machine. After all a current(2 year old) 250 GP machine was fairly competitive with the current moto 2 machine of its time.
