I can't belive I forgot it was Daytona. I wonder if it was the tech's or if Mat knew about it. have to admit I haven't been following the raceing lately.:mecry:
He knew, they all do. Cheating has been going on for so long with the factory teams it's just stupid. How do you think yosh has won so many races? It's not even fun to watch superbike anymore.
I think they should enforce the rules better. WSB is supposed to be guys battling on close to the same bikes you can buy from the dealer. MotoGP should be the battle ground for best race team engineering IMO.
They didn't have to; by taking off one of the engine covers, they can immediately see if something's weird. Since MM's appeared to be the same as the previously "DQ'ed' crank, they pulled it again.
There are multiple indicators of stock cranks: most important being the bearing codes. You can't buy an OEM crank without matching bearings, and you can't 'guess' which ones are right, either. Apparently, one of yosh's cranks failed to have OEM bearing stampings on it. That's a big no-no.
Either way, its a huge mess for Yosh, the AMA (both old and DMG) and the fans. Now, we don't know who to cheer on....
The part that seems less than fair to me is after Mladin & Hayden got caught with non legal cranks in qualifying, they were simply allowed to re-qualify with the stock parts. WTF!
IMHO, if you get caught cheating the consequences should be much larger. They should have started from the back row at the very least.
Get caught cheating multiple times in a series, your championship points should go bye bye.
By having such weak consequences, the AMA is fostering this behavior.
Completely agree with this.....they all might as well cheat in qualifying to get a good grid spot if the worse that's going to happen is they get to try again on their legal bike. Maybe teams will have 3 bikes in the garage, Setup A, Setup B and Setup illegal (with supercharger :lmao: ).
I'm all for enforcing the rules like this. If they keep the rules tight then a team which might not have that much funding but has a great rider will have a chance.
they took the stator covers off all three bikes after Q on friday, and visibly Mladin and Haydens crankshafts were differernt then Spies, hence why they didnt tear down Spies's engine to the crank
Their times were disallowed from friday Q, which leads me to believe that there's no point in having Friday Q, since they were all on the front row from satudaY
Lost in all this was the job Spies did this weekend. Amazing the way he was passing guys 2 at a time on braking. And these weren't back of the pack riders he was passing.
Reminded me of Rossi a few years ago, when he ran off the track and then sliced his way back to the front.
After the VIR mess, SPIES Crew chief reportedly bought a stock
GSXR1000 and took the crank out of it for ATL just to be double
dog sure it would pass tech.
Mladin's crew chief must be confident that they can talk their way out
of the other crank situation.
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