British website bikesportnews.
com who has more moles in the WSBK paddock than I have burrowing in my back yard, has revealed that the World Superbike championship is thinking of adopting the British Superbike Evo class rules in 2012 in order to put a halt to the declining number of riders in the series.
In 2011 the Superbike grid will see only 21 full time riders and despite doing a bang up job with spectacular racing and growing number of fans, it doesn’t seem that the grid will be getting much healthier in the coming years, hence the talk of adopting the technical rules of the BSB Evo class, a format very similar to Moto2, that could allow full Superbike racing chassis, but powered by a standard engine and a series-specified control ECU.
We know of one team manager who’d be all for a rule change, Alstare Suzuki’s Francis Batta, who has previously gone on the record saying “I don’t say we have to race with Superstocks, but we should be nearer to them.
Today the market is facing a momentous slowdown, and there’s a lot less money than in the past, and the rules should be changed to adapt to this situation.
We have to go back and nobody should cheat.
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