Racing Silly Season - Who's Going Where For 2017?
Discussion
WaferThinHam said:
Turn7 said:
Anything for Coops ? I like him as a rider, and I think hed be a great second rider.
Another one with history at Hawk Racing.....Any ideas where the Buildbase money is going next year or are they removing all sponsorship?
also... Hicky has history with the Hickens so he might still have a chance of a second seat at Hawk. Plus if my memory serves me well he had a couple of races a few years back on a GSXR...not that changing bikes seems to disturb him after he's done OK on Fireblades, ZX10s and S1000Rs.
sprinter1050 said:
WaferThinHam said:
Turn7 said:
Anything for Coops ? I like him as a rider, and I think hed be a great second rider.
Another one with history at Hawk Racing.....Any ideas where the Buildbase money is going next year or are they removing all sponsorship?
also... Hicky has history with the Hickens so he might still have a chance of a second seat at Hawk. Plus if my memory serves me well he had a couple of races a few years back on a GSXR...not that changing bikes seems to disturb him after he's done OK on Fireblades, ZX10s and S1000Rs.
He has had very very good offers from big roads teams but he wants bsb ride too.
Buildbase money will probably be on a third hawk suzuki. Looking like Tmac on a superbike (undecided on if it will be main bennets team or buildbase 3rd bike) Lee J still in running too.
Brookes fall from grace could be complete and could end up on a toth yamaha in wsbk....
Lincsblokey said:
sprinter1050 said:
WaferThinHam said:
Turn7 said:
Anything for Coops ? I like him as a rider, and I think hed be a great second rider.
Another one with history at Hawk Racing.....Any ideas where the Buildbase money is going next year or are they removing all sponsorship?
also... Hicky has history with the Hickens so he might still have a chance of a second seat at Hawk. Plus if my memory serves me well he had a couple of races a few years back on a GSXR...not that changing bikes seems to disturb him after he's done OK on Fireblades, ZX10s and S1000Rs.
He has had very very good offers from big roads teams but he wants bsb ride too.
Buildbase money will probably be on a third hawk suzuki. Looking like Tmac on a superbike (undecided on if it will be main bennets team or buildbase 3rd bike) Lee J still in running too.
Brookes fall from grace could be complete and could end up on a toth yamaha in wsbk....
A third BSB bike could be very interesting in Buildbase colours.
WaferThinHam said:
Last I saw from press releases Bennetts money moved with Suzuki to the Hawk team and Taylor was in Superstock again? I understand it's a two bike team in Superbike, One Superstock and One Supersport, although I could be wayyyyyy off (not unusual).
A third BSB bike could be very interesting in Buildbase colours.
I heard Taylor McKenzie on the other superbike with Richard Cooper dropping down into Superstock 1000. A third BSB bike could be very interesting in Buildbase colours.
Also new rule changes for superstock 1000 next year - http://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/british-superb...
I don't know why they didn't just go for the standard 2 races like everyone else gets? The quality of the racing is always good with the current format, it just needs more coverage
George29 said:
I heard Taylor McKenzie on the other superbike with Richard Cooper dropping down into Superstock 1000.
Also new rule changes for superstock 1000 next year - http://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/british-superb...
I don't know why they didn't just go for the standard 2 races like everyone else gets? The quality of the racing is always good with the current format, it just needs more coverage
They don't want the Stockers out shining the main show which is why the coverage has been limited.Also new rule changes for superstock 1000 next year - http://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/british-superb...
I don't know why they didn't just go for the standard 2 races like everyone else gets? The quality of the racing is always good with the current format, it just needs more coverage
ZX10R NIN said:
They don't want the Stockers out shining the main show which is why the coverage has been limited.
I know that, but with the amount of big names in it next season they need to increase the coverage, not add 100 mile races with pit stops - it's unfair on a lot of the privateer teams if nothing else, it will increase the costs for a season quite a bit. I know a few people who race in it and none seem to be impressed with the changeGeorge29 said:
I know that, but with the amount of big names in it next season they need to increase the coverage, not add 100 mile races with pit stops - it's unfair on a lot of the privateer teams if nothing else, it will increase the costs for a season quite a bit. I know a few people who race in it and none seem to be impressed with the change
Exactly why they added this format they want to lower the grid numbers Superstocks isn't a class they want to see full grids on, when I heard these proposals & the reason for it (to make the running costs closer to BSB therefore luring teams back to the main show) I just gave up it's now got to the point where Higgs & MSVR are doing their best to kill off BSB.
ZX10R NIN said:
Exactly why they added this format they want to lower the grid numbers Superstocks isn't a class they want to see full grids on, when I heard these proposals & the reason for it (to make the running costs closer to BSB therefore luring teams back to the main show) I just gave up it's now got to the point where Higgs & MSVR are doing their best to kill off BSB.
It's a shame, it gives some of the best racing. Agree, I can't see BSB lasting much longer the way things are going with it. egor110 said:
Would a super stock team have access to the funding to move up to bsb.
I thought super stock was a slightly cheaper way to get on the bsb package.
Superstock is a much cheaper way. The bike costs ~£25k vs >£65k for a superbike, and then there's the running costs, you need a lot of staff to run a superbike team.I thought super stock was a slightly cheaper way to get on the bsb package.
With the 600s supposedly going in 2018 I thought they would be promoting superstock 1000 as much as possible
George29 said:
It's a shame, it gives some of the best racing. Agree, I can't see BSB lasting much longer the way things are going with it.
Unfortunately I have the same feeling. On the flip side WSB seems to be slowly gathering momentum. Whatever happens we need to embrace it. It can't be to long before bikes go towards more electric power the same as car racing is
theshrew said:
Unfortunately I have the same feeling. On the flip side WSB seems to be slowly gathering momentum.
Whatever happens we need to embrace it. It can't be to long before bikes go towards more electric power the same as car racing is
I take it you have heard the latest comedy news about wsb race 2 grids?Whatever happens we need to embrace it. It can't be to long before bikes go towards more electric power the same as car racing is
BSB has one simple problem and it's not Higgs or Palmer, it's Paul Bird and Shakey Byrne. Until someone can stop Bird throwing obscene amounts of money at his team, and it really is obscene compared to what most can do. Secondly until Byrne retires there really is no point in others competing. I know he's only won it every other year, but every time someone beats him, they vanish to WSB and he wins it the following year. The challenge really isn't there from any other team, even Haslam struggled to compete against him.
The support races have been better racing and closer fought for a few years now, but don't think that SS1000 is a cheap place to race, even that usually requires a rider to buy a seat for upwards of £50000 a year, so they have to have a day job to feed themselves.
The support races have been better racing and closer fought for a few years now, but don't think that SS1000 is a cheap place to race, even that usually requires a rider to buy a seat for upwards of £50000 a year, so they have to have a day job to feed themselves.
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