Casey Stoner has urged MotoGP regulation changes that happened in a last few year. The 2011 World Champions, feels that the changes of regulation will affect riders stability. Some regulation that happened in a last few year are cylinder capacity andweight limit.
Casey Stoner:
“It just needs to be stable. The fact is they haven’t stopped making changes to the championship. It’s not the decisions that they’re making now that’s the problem, it’s decisions they made in the past. By changing from 500 to 1000, changing from 1000 back to 800, then going with the single tyre rule you lose all competition. So you lose somebody who’s maybe not as fast, but on another brand of tyre that was working better on the day pushing themselves up on the podium spot and getting exposure. So the smaller teams can get their exposure.”
“They want to cut costs but then put four kilos on the bikes after everyone’s already developed them. That’s cost them a lot of money, especially Honda and Yamaha because I know they were on the legal weight requirement. Maybe the other manufacturers weren’t, so they went; let’s just move everybody up there (to 157kg). So all that money that they’re trying to save, they just spent. Kenny Roberts might still be racing with his team if they had stopped changing everything. But even in 800s they were changing this and that and they want to 21 litres. It’s just not giving a chance to anybody else to reach those levels."
"It’s about the teams that are planning to come into this championship wanting to make a name for themselves and build up a machine that can be competitive. But every year or two they change the regulations, so where is the money going to come from to develop again for these small teams? They don’t make any sense, trying to save money by spending more money. It’s just complicated to figure out why they keep changing things. And why restrict it to four-cylinders as well. If they didn’t restrict all this then you’d see somebody with an amazing idea maybe. It’s like Honda with their five-cylinder. It was an amazing bike, but somebody else might come in with a completely different idea again and be able to make a great bike. But when there’s such a tight rule, and then they keep changing it for small things, it’s impossible for small companies to make a difference, so this is where I think they’re going wrong.”
source: MCN
