The FIM and Dorna have accepted nine CRT teams with one reserve entry, the rules have been tweaked to allow the much slower CRT riders who fail to make the 107% cut during qualifying an extra chance to make it onto the grid with their warm-up practice lap times (factory and satellite riders are generally slower as they are out in race trim and not in qualifying trim) which is – let’s admit it – a blatant help to get as many CRT riders into the race.
Riders like the hypercritical Casey Stoner, to the much more moderate opinions of Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi have already said what they think of upcoming CRTs and Dani Pedrosa has added his name to the list.
“The whole package is inferior to that of the current MotoGPs.
The CRTs will field riders apart from Edwards and De Puniet, who have very little experience.
I think that the differences in lap times will be considerable in 2012, but you have to believe in the category: Moto2 was a good change, Moto3 looks promising, it may be the same for the CRTs.
However I wouldn’t be happy to ride one in the future, it would be a step backwards for me since I’ve been racing the fastest prototypes in the world and I don’t know if they would be as fun as MotoGPs, “ said Pedrosa in an long interview with Sport.
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