I occasionally follow the German Superbike championship and I really loathe their ruleset. It's something a lot of other club racing or semi pro championships do, so it's relevant across the board. These Germans think it's 2011 and all bikes have the same power output.They don't allow doing anything to the engines, they don't allow aftermarket front forks, you must hence use the cartridges, you may not use an aftermarket swingarm or do anything to the bike's frame, magnesium wheels are banned.Does this actually reduce costs in a meaningful way? No. It just means you need to buy a stock 45000 euro bike to be competitive, either the BMW or the Ducati. That is exremely stupid as developing the engines could only benefit the cheaper bikes. The 240 hp Ducati engine is already maxed out in terms of material science and needs race fuel at it's highest compression ratio. It's only that the cheaper bikes cannot catch up because they may not replace engine parts. They should perhaps give a combined 65k price cap and dictate that the aftermarket components be consumer available parts or something similar. BSB I think are the only series with sensible rules and the Yamaha are dominating, getting faster lap times than IDM in Assen despite having no electronics. R&D is not that expensive in 2026 with all the computer simulations. They are making fools out of themselves and they will never be a stepping stone to WSBK or even Motogp, though there is enough money and people in the region that they could have been.
>>28885224>Does this actually reduce costs in a meaningful way? Nolol, YES IT DOES! A high performance Öhlins fork costs over 16k, a Suter swingarm is over 10k, Brembo racing brake calipers are over 6k, a racing brake-pump is 2,5k, magnesium wheels are 5k... Do you get the picture?
>>28885224Sounds like other manufacturers need to git gud and develop their bikes. At least Kawasaki are making half an effort by outsourcing their factory WSB team to Bimota now.
Also Aprilia need to just fucking fit the RSV4 with a sleeved block/ different crank to take it down to 999cc and sell a shitload to privateers.
>>28885347Incredibly small market
>>28885360I'd agree with you if they- hadn't made the engine as a liter for 10 years already- weren't making a separate liter v4 for MotoGP- Ducati had real trouble shifting units of the V4R
>>28885336>lol, YES IT DOES! A high performance Öhlins fork costs over 16k, a Suter swingarm is over 10k, Brembo racing brake calipers are over 6k, a racing brake-pump is 2,5k, magnesium wheels are 5k... Do you get the picture?No Öhlins fork is over 10k, which is only 7k more than the cartridges' limit, and magnesium wheels are around 2k more than that of the best forged aluminum alloy.>>28885341>Sounds like other manufacturers need to git gud and develop their bikes. At least Kawasaki are making half an effort by outsourcing their factory WSB team to Bimota now.Not really. Price to performance is competitive. The bike designs are fine, the Japanese chassis are fine, the engine blueprints are also fine. It's just about changing out the materials and using race fuel to get that higher compression ratios and less weight. These mods are trivial and are done in BSB, where the Yamaha are the best bike. Because bikes like the Ducati are maxed out from the factory, you get exact parity for the same money spent. The problem is just that in IDM you are not allowed to change the engine, so the only option is to buy a 45k bike.
>>28885693>No Öhlins fork is over 10k
>>28885702my suggestion was to limit oneself to consumer parts, these seem like genuine factory parts. ktech ktr5 are like 9k euro
>>28885224So they tried to rig it for the home team but still got ass blasted by the pastafags.
>>28885953>So they tried to rig it for the home team but still got ass blasted by the pastafags.Not sure what you meant by this. It's equally or more rigged in Ducati's benefit, though the M1000RR is also competitive and used by most of the field. The "home team," if any, would be the factory backed Honda of Florian Alt, he is the pure breaded German of the front runners. Him and Tulović, a Balkanac with German passport (in pic related), are the most skillful. Others are an Estonian and an Ukranian on the M1000RR. I speculate Alt stays on the piece of junk Honda in hopes of getting more factory involvement and eventually a WSBK test or wildcard or something maybe some paid ambassador role for Honda in Germany
>>28885224>to be competitive, either the BMW or the Ducati.I dont believe this one bit.
>>28887475>never won a single raceDesu!
