Please make this happen - Common ECU No TC (or less!)
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MotoGP considering move to standard ECU
By Jonathan Noble and Michele Lostia Thursday, December 20th 2007, 14:12 GMT
MotoGP could follow Formula One's lead and adopt a standard ECU to get rid of electronic rider aids, the sport's commercial chief Carmelo Ezpeleta has revealed.
With former world champion Valentino Rossi having recently criticised the growing influence of traction control on the top level motorbike category, Dorna boss Ezpeleta has admitted that he too wants to start making moves to reign back on the systems.
"It's the next thing we must work on," Ezpeleta told Italian magazine Motosprint. "We need to regulate it.
"The ideal thing would be a single ECU identical for everyone, but the constructors don't agree with that. But we need an idea. I will discuss this with the riders, the technicians, whoever this concerns."
Ezpeleta has shown that he is not afraid to consider controversial rules, having earlier this year threatened Michelin and Bridgestone with the introduction of a control tyre in MotoGP to improve the spectacle.
Talking about that decision, he said: "I had to make threats of a control tyre. We needed to change the regulations and I understood that Michelin and Bridgestone wouldn't find any agreement on their own.
"They didn't want to find an agreement. Now something has been done, we'll see if it's enough. I want to get back to the situation we had in 2005, as far as the balance and the spectacle are concerned."
MotoGP considering move to standard ECU
By Jonathan Noble and Michele Lostia Thursday, December 20th 2007, 14:12 GMT
MotoGP could follow Formula One's lead and adopt a standard ECU to get rid of electronic rider aids, the sport's commercial chief Carmelo Ezpeleta has revealed.
With former world champion Valentino Rossi having recently criticised the growing influence of traction control on the top level motorbike category, Dorna boss Ezpeleta has admitted that he too wants to start making moves to reign back on the systems.
"It's the next thing we must work on," Ezpeleta told Italian magazine Motosprint. "We need to regulate it.
"The ideal thing would be a single ECU identical for everyone, but the constructors don't agree with that. But we need an idea. I will discuss this with the riders, the technicians, whoever this concerns."
Ezpeleta has shown that he is not afraid to consider controversial rules, having earlier this year threatened Michelin and Bridgestone with the introduction of a control tyre in MotoGP to improve the spectacle.
Talking about that decision, he said: "I had to make threats of a control tyre. We needed to change the regulations and I understood that Michelin and Bridgestone wouldn't find any agreement on their own.
"They didn't want to find an agreement. Now something has been done, we'll see if it's enough. I want to get back to the situation we had in 2005, as far as the balance and the spectacle are concerned."
macdeb said:
I do hope so 'cus if it goes on like it is, people [me included] will switch off.
Indeed - you need to see the things slide, when they gas them up, I mean christ they have a contact patch the size of your palm and 200 - 230 bhp they should be giving the tyres a harder time than the are (i.e. the bloody TC SH*T is taking the skill out and you can just pin in it!!).
at last some common sense, they ticker around the edges, but they just need to ban all aids. Man and machine. Its the same in the car world.. many series are at best standing still many struggling, because you need all the lectronics and pointy heads to understand them, no offence to all the pointy heads out there love u really. Series doing well caterham, BMW hot hatch challege all simple as hell.
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