New Championship, new rules

[Shaun]

Drop SB, to exspensive, bugger chasing the factories spent money with your own!

WE WILL HAVE TV ( LG) have them as well- Plug Push I have a $20K sponsor NOW! for a new series

Prime class- ss600

F2, Reintroduce it, 250cc 2 strokes and 600 cc 4 strokes- Apart from that NO RULES- Kiwi building style, and apperance quality control required for TV reasons


F3 as is

125 as is- POSS incorporate the 150 world from sth- staggerd starts?

SC-You guys decide!

1st year, 5 rounds in the NTH, repeat events at selected tracks

2nd year include 2 rounds in the Sth as well as 5 in the nth

Co-ordinate a shipping/trucking company for containers to transit bikes and gear to keep costs down both ways, and a few buses for transport of one and all, to and from arranged heavily discounted accomodation, Unless you want to drive.

Employ a co-ordinator/promotor on a base salary of say $15K (CASH) IRD not required here, + phone and vehicle costs, give him/her x % of what sponsorship cash they can bring in

This person also arranges bulk purchase deals of product, to help pass the cost saving on to the racers

MODS - please add a voting pole to this PLEASE

I would Love the position?

[CHOPPA]

I fully agree with paying a promoter!! It should be a professional position, maybe keeping say 5% of money raised that would get them really motivated!

As far as the rules and chasing factorys if the rules were open that would leave us chasing the factorys even more, imagine there bikes turning up with factory forks etc etc and motor work cost lots and makes bikes unreliable

Speed-Techs ZX10R that im riding is competitive and all it has is a inlet cam, exhaust, filter and race ecu. We havnt even tuned the bike. It also has ohlins fork internals and shock but it certainly didnt cost anymore to set up then the 600. If the superbike rules were limited to nz 600 rules and you stopped cross entry for 600s and did something to encourage riders to step up like cheaper entry for superbikes or prize money and actually recognise superbike as the premier class, that would be the ticket in my mind.

[slowpoke]

Haha, Clubman's is gonna be the toughest class in the land with all the old big bangers left with nowhere else to race.

[sinfull]

Man you must sleep with two cheeks hanging off the edge of the bed ! Good on ya !

[Ivan]

Its a really really good idea.

Cutting costs is also going to bring more people from Club scene format to Natinal level because look at a club event Vic Club for example the costs are low reallyandthetiem on the track is worthwhile and you end up with full gridsand have to have riders put into other classes to keep it going

Wereas a National race meet Entry fee's are so high plus the cost of transport to and from the meetign and tires and running the bike for 3 days it all adds up along withferry costs etc

Were asif you have this idea of Transporters and buses its going to really chop down the costs and makes it cheaper to as more people paying less it costs overall for each rider to get his biek down.


Hope it really works out Shaun

[vtec]

Definitely needs to be looked at. MotoGP was smart enough to do away with 990's and bring it back to 800's, and it has improved it.

Your plan is good Shaun, but obviously F2 rules would need to be looked at a little more closely, like allowing 750 or 700cc twins?

[scracha]

F2, and apperance quality control required for TV reasons

So ugly people must wear tinted visors?

F3 as is

F3 is currently fucked Shaun. At least you're letting ugly people in the lower classes.

[Shaun]

Man you must sleep with two cheeks hanging off the edge of the bed ! Good on ya !

Do you mean me? WHY?

[sinfull]

Do you mean me? WHY?

I read and follow your posts ! Though i dont and will never claim to know that much about the sport, it's something that interests me and i'm getting into it (allbeit 30 yrs too late) !
I know that when i embrace something and put everything i have into it, it even occupies my dreams !
Nice to see ppl living the dream !!

That's all !

[HDTboy]

Rather than do away with the premier class, why not just build a series using superstock rules from another country (U.K.)?
There's a brilliant product (motorcycle racing as entertainment) waiting to be marketed correctly. I agree with you that there needs to be a paid promoter, and raise you a promotion company with dedicated publicists, advertising sales reps, and a team of journalists knocking out press releases every 5 minutes. Live radio commentary of each and every race would be a good start, allow TAB to take bets on race outcomes, and delayed TV coverage (even on sky) of every race would work too. If speedway can be run profitably, then what are MNZ fucking about with?

[Shaun]

I read and follow your posts ! Though i dont and will never claim to know that much about the sport, it's something that interests me and i'm getting into it (allbeit 30 yrs too late) !
I know that when i embrace something and put everything i have into it, it even occupies my dreams !
Nice to see ppl living the dream !!

That's all !

Cheers, I thought you might have been refering to the time I posted it. Since my crash and healing, I only sleep about 4 hours a day/night now, so get a lot during he middle or the normal sleep time

Sleeping is for wimps anyway

[Shaun]

Rather than do away with the premier class, why not just build a series using superstock rules from another country (U.K.)?
There's a brilliant product (motorcycle racing as entertainment) waiting to be marketed correctly. I agree with you that there needs to be a paid promoter, and raise you a promotion company with dedicated publicists, advertising sales reps, and a team of journalists knocking out press releases every 5 minutes. Live radio commentary of each and every race would be a good start, allow TAB to take bets on race outcomes, and delayed TV coverage (even on sky) of every race would work too. If speedway can be run profitably, then what are MNZ fucking about with?

Discussed this today with a couple of suspension experts, and we all ended up agreeing ( God) on running Total STD motors in SB class, with a pipe and power commander only, Apart from the chassis, which would remain as is.

And also to change the SS600 class to the same as above.

Prodi racing as such!

[steve74]

F3 is currently fucked Shaun.

I agree with scracha, F3 has been well and truly kicked in the guts. only 3 or 4 of the big money sv650/400 fours are finishing ahead of a stock standard pro twin. Hell Glen williams is competitive in 600ss on his thing.

Why not do something like this http://www.sbl.org.au/

as shaun said, with appearence rules. it would be one of the cheapest ways to boost bike racing numbers and put bums on race bikes.

I seen a few of these races in Australia, and yes they are 15 to 20 year old bikes but a full field of competitive beautifully presented 400s and 250cc strokers looked impressive and professional on the grid as any SBK or Motogp races ive been to. They even have umbrella girls.
I take my hat off to those boys that actually got off there ass to race in F3 at this years nationals,taking nothing away from them, but surely a shit load of nicely presented clangers is better than the huge differential of horsepower and money that we currently have in F3 right now.

[brads]

Discussed this today with a couple of suspension experts, and we all ended up agreeing ( God) on running Total STD motors in SB class, with a pipe and power commander only, Apart from the chassis, which would remain as is.

And also to change the SS600 class to the same as above.

Prodi racing as such!

I would second that.

[Kiwi Graham:Me]

Like the idea of an agent, went down that line in the UK....he wanted 50% of all cash support!!!! ended up with the usual and much needed/appreciated product deals ground out by myself.

Co-ordinating all that would be a huge task, if it could be done the savings would be huge!