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[Garth H]

Wow, now that is a nice piece of art they whipped up there.

http://www.motogp.co...oject USA races

I wonder if they're using the Radio Shack electronics package and if so how much better it is than the Bosch package?

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[skidmark]

Good luck to them.

Hopefully, they have adequate time to sort the machine out before Laguna.

[Thornado]

I salute them for trying, but I don't really see the point of the exercise. Not much glory in being the last CRT home.

[yamaduc]

It would be cool if they beat all the other CRT's and have them enter the Championship full time.
I'm sure costs and logistics will not be cheap though.

[Apriliarider]

Any images of the completed bike?

Also, I like Steve Rapp.....but he's probably at the bottom of my short list to compete against the best in the world. Just being realistic, about the only rider currently in AMA racing capable of running anywhere near the big boys at Laguna is Roger Hayden. He has history of doing so anyway. I'm pretty sure Josh Hayes could do it too, given enough time on the bike. After them, I don't really know. All the well known names in AMA are well past their prime, and of the young guns, Beaubier and Benny Solis have GP experience but that doesn't really amount to much, given it was 125s in the rookies cup. I don't know who would be a better choice than Steve, but c'mon...there has got to be someone, hasn't there?

On a related note, I read somewhere a little while back that Aaron Yates is going to ride a wildcard CRT entry at Indy. He's not ridden in a race in two years. Let alone a single race at MotoGP level. We've got some talent here in the US but bringing guys out who had their best days 7,8 maybe 10 years ago isn't going to show that to the world. If you're gonna put older riders on a wildcard, why not bring out Roberts Jr or Kocinski? At least they've both won on the world stage. Maybe I'm a little too cynical....what if Rapp and Yates do better than the current last guys on the grid?

Edited by Apriliarider, 19 July 2012 - 05:29 PM.

[banzai132]

I think that Yates did an endurance race at Road Atlanta last month. They won.
He was the fastest rider on the team, naturally.

[Garth H]

imho the US hasn't produced a new rider since NAPCAR took over the AMA series.

It will be interesting to see this bike on track though.

[Dan]

The US hasnt produced a new rider since Hayden in 2003.

[Jordan L.]

The US hasnt produced a new rider since Hayden in 2003.

Spies?

[Graystroke]

I salute them for trying, but I don't really see the point of the exercise. Not much glory in being the last CRT home.

Yeah......good on them for trying. I suppose the point is this: How many designers have one of THEIR designs run at a MotoGP race? Not many! I'm sure they're going 24/7......sleeping at the keyboard, shop, wherever trying to get it together for Laguna.

[Apriliarider]

I think that Yates did an endurance race at Road Atlanta last month. They won.
He was the fastest rider on the team, naturally.

I read the same thing...but my thoughts were, who was he racing against? I'm pretty sure, not the top guys in the AMA. My point is, it's been forever since he competed. 2 years since he was competing in AMA Superbike. Even then, it was on a Team Jordan bike. It's been several seasons since he was with Yoshimura and teamed with Spies and Mladin. With that much time away from the top, why put him on a CRT? You'd do just as well of putting Kocinski or Roberts Jr....even Kurtis Roberts on one. They've been away for about the same amount of time. They'd probably be faster though. Nothing against Yates, I just think there are better candidates out there.

[banzai132]

I read the same thing...but my thoughts were, who was he racing against? I'm pretty sure, not the top guys in the AMA. My point is, it's been forever since he competed. 2 years since he was competing in AMA Superbike. Even then, it was on a Team Jordan bike. It's been several seasons since he was with Yoshimura and teamed with Spies and Mladin. With that much time away from the top, why put him on a CRT? You'd do just as well of putting Kocinski or Roberts Jr....even Kurtis Roberts on one. They've been away for about the same amount of time. They'd probably be faster though. Nothing against Yates, I just think there are better candidates out there.

Little known fact. Yates started his roadracing career in 1993 in the Harley Davidson twinsports class at Daytona. I was there.

[Apriliarider]

Might be a little known fact, but I did know that. Ben & Eric Bostrom, Nate "gator" Waite and his brother Matt also got their start in that class. That does not have anything to do with riding a MotoGP bike at Indy. It's not really relevant. Those guys were good national level riders, in the case of Bostrom, borderline great on the national level. He did pretty well at WSBK level too, but look what happened when he got a shot on a MotoGP bike. Yates is going to do better? Nothing against Yates, I was a huge fan until the fanny kicking incident. I just don't think that he's capable of peforming on the level MotoGP requires.

You put someone like DiSalvo on that bike, regardless of how bad it ends up being and he'll probably hang right there with the CRTs...he proved that in Moto2. On the outside shot that this bike is decent enough, a rider like DiSalvo could post a fairly good result. Not that I'm a DiSalvo fan, just being objective based on their records. Yates could surely develop the bike, I'm not saying he couldn't. I just don't think he's the guy to race it. I feel kind of the same about the Attack bike. I got a better feeling about how it will stack up against the regular CRTs, and Stanboli builds one hell of an engine. I just don't know Rapp is the guy to take it on the world stage. Again, he's a good rider, a good National caliber rider. That would put him at the back end of the pack in MotoGP though. If the bike is good, and I think it will be pretty good, will Steve Rapp be able to put it in amongst the best of the CRTs? He knows Laguna well, and that could work to his advantage. I hope he does well.....but I also think there might be a better rider for that particular gig. The question is, who?

[banzai132]

Well, DiSalvo is out of a ride.......

[Graystroke]

Little known fact. Yates started his roadracing career in 1993 in the Harley Davidson twinsports class at Daytona. I was there.

.....and you beat him too........right? Hahaha....

[banzai132]

.....and you beat him too........right? Hahaha....

No. I wasn't racing just yet.

[jose_jimenez]

Little known fact. Yates started his roadracing career in 1993 in the Harley Davidson twinsports class at Daytona. I was there.

[ninjasquaddie]

Is that a breach of the site policy on cookies?

[yamaduc]

^^

[Apriliarider]

Not looking good for the Attack bike. Has anyone seen whether or not they're going to let Rapp race? He's still outside the 107% as of FP3. Isn't the rule that he has to lap within 107% at some point during practice? Maybe they should throw some NGM colors on it and let Colin ride it.....couldn't be much worse than what he has now, right?....like I wrote initially, I'm not sure Rapp is the rider to race this bike.