VFR Discussion Group -> No HRC for AMA Superbike

According to Two Wheel Tuesday, HRC won't be involved in AMA superbike this year. They are leaving it to American Honda to work up winning bikes. That may eliminate the trickle down technology from World Superbike.

Miguel and Jake talked the good talk, but I don't know how happy they really are. You get more local input, but you don't get the mighty Japanese HRC custom engineering and knowlege base. Those of you that know more of the inside of racing, please comment on the positives and negatives of this move.

Positive - the team can make modifications they want, wherein the past they had to use the kit parts they way they were

Negative - they are a working team racing on a regular basis which makes development work more difficult

Overall result: Suzuki or Ducati will take the AMA Superbike championship while HRC continues to be preoccupied with MotoGP

SAFE-T, Mar 8 2005, 09:07 PMPositive -  the team can make modifications they want, wherein the past they had to use the kit parts they way they were

Assuming they have the design, engineering and technical ability to design and fabricate what they need to correct a problem. Hopefully HRC will have an open two way communication with them.

Negative - they are a working team racing on a regular basis which makes development work more difficult

I think you mean limited resources and time to develop, design, build needed parts...right?

Overall result: Suzuki or Ducati will take the AMA Superbike championship while HRC continues to be preoccupied with MotoGP

That's my take on it also.