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Re: Kevin Curtain Joins Yamaha Racing Team

09/02

03:02 PM

Terry,
The reality is the class riders are not going to be in the fx series which is a dam shame, but it will be hard to show who is the best rider on near standard machinary being that there will be alot of so called"B" class riders trying to make a name for themselves which is what i think this series is about not somewere for a past champion to compete against riders with far less experience and then claim that he is the best rider in the field..............
Im not putting down your series at all please dont take it as that but its a great place for young up and coming talented riders to gain confidence and experience to go onto bigger and better things hopefully over seas were the game really is on.
I think Yamaha will be strong but it really should be a walk in for them with there experienced team and riders along with there budget which will be far more then most of the other expected front runners in both the fx600 and fx1000 classes.
We all went away from superbike because of budgets and money but here Yamaha is sneaking into the series trying to steel the lime light they have lost and i just hope it doesnt effect peoples ideas of what this series originally set out to achieve.
Cheers Tez

As long as people truly believe the game is overseas Australian racing will never grow. If the game is truly overseas then riders should pack their bags and go, don't bother racing here at all just go.

As I've said a thousand times I'm not here to build world champions I'm here to build Australian road racing. The reality is out of every 100 riders maybe one will get a half decent ride OS's unless they pay fortunes for it. Once the money runs out they send you home. I'm guessing but maybe out of every 3000 racers that we produce nationally we get a world champion in one of the premier classes, Lotto has better odds then that of winning something.

I'm not sure that you have listened to what I said but this is not the ASBK of Production Superbike. The rules and the structure of the classes make it as damn near a level playing field as you could expect. The competitors that win either the FX600 or FX1000 class will be the best racers not the people with the biggest bank accounts.

I bet if you put Shaun Giles, Kev Curtain, Glen Allerton, Waters, Hay, Staring, Maxwell, Kain, Johnson, the Stauffers and any of the other top twenty riders from the Superbike, FX1000 and Supersport grids on exactly the same model bike, with the same preparation and on the same tyres and ran a race tomorrow you would be surprised who won and who came last. The Production Superbike class and its rules will never allow the cream to rise to the top because you usually get picked because of who you get on with or who you know not just on talent. This is not what will happen at FX1000, a talented rider with an average racing budget will get results based on his talent and racing skill nothing else.

In reality most privateer riders I've ever met don't dream about winning they dream about getting a factory ride so they can have a chance of winning and those few factory rides are getting harder and harder to get as the number of factory teams keeps shrinking.

Now tell me is that what racing should be about?

cheers,
Terry

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