>I doubt CRTs will include the factory-supported lease teams, these will
>be new teams building machines up from production motors and probably
>aftermarket chassis. I think what they will later define is a
>separation between the factory participants and the non-factory
>participants, and teams like Gresini and Tech 3 do/will clearly fall on
>the factory side, unless they choose to change their approach. The
>claiming rules will be to there to accomplish what they always are
>intended to accomplish, to keep spending down. And at those levels
>there must be the belief that they have to provide some additional
>advantages to these teams to keep them even marginally competitive. As
>in being able to keep the worst lease teams in sight for a few laps.
>The real issue here still would seem to be the inability to define a
>motor as "production-based" in the rules, because of the FIM-IMS thing.
>The first run was the bore limitation, and now it looks like claiming
>is step two. It's the same sort of dance we saw in Moto2.
Yup. On reflection nothing really happened today, just that we'll have
1000cc prototypes with 3kg extra weight. Defining CRT has been put off
till the end of May.
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>be new teams building machines up from production motors and probably
>aftermarket chassis. I think what they will later define is a
>separation between the factory participants and the non-factory
>participants, and teams like Gresini and Tech 3 do/will clearly fall on
>the factory side, unless they choose to change their approach. The
>claiming rules will be to there to accomplish what they always are
>intended to accomplish, to keep spending down. And at those levels
>there must be the belief that they have to provide some additional
>advantages to these teams to keep them even marginally competitive. As
>in being able to keep the worst lease teams in sight for a few laps.
>The real issue here still would seem to be the inability to define a
>motor as "production-based" in the rules, because of the FIM-IMS thing.
>The first run was the bore limitation, and now it looks like claiming
>is step two. It's the same sort of dance we saw in Moto2.