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15 Jan 2004, 09:26 (Ref:839000)
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250s to stay...........
........ until the end of 2009. None of the manufacturers can afford racing another money-eating class, so by common agreement the 250 class will remain as is until the end of 2009 at least!!!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully this will encourage a few more manufacturers to join the fun, and for those participating to continue development. This can only be good for the class now that the rules will be stable for some time to come.
  
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15 Jan 2004, 09:43 (Ref:839008)
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Great news. But are the 125s in the same boat or are they still to be phased out?
I hope not as it produces the best racing in the world.
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15 Jan 2004, 10:55 (Ref:839077)
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Excellent!
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15 Jan 2004, 21:04 (Ref:839602)
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Excellent news. The MotoGP class is the pinnacle but we need the 250s and 125s; as world championships in their own right as well as as feeders to MotoGP - anyone care to calculate how many of the MotoGP grid have raced in the 125cc W/C or 250cc W/C or both?
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15 Jan 2004, 21:14 (Ref:839621)
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Think the only ones that haven't regularly are maybe Bayliss,Edwards,Burns (?), Tamada, Hopkins.#
Did Ruben race 250's I reckon he did a year bwfore he started in Supersport |
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16 Jan 2004, 15:17 (Ref:840504)
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I know Xaus raced German Superbikes before going World Supersport, but he may have done some 250cc stuff beforehand, not sure it would have been world level though.
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17 Jan 2004, 13:26 (Ref:841533)
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(xaus) maybe 250 as a wild card in the spanish gp's - rumours of 600 supersport replacing 250 gp..... when will aprilia design a supersport bike
 - ducati dominate moto gp, aprilia dominate supersport (moto gp2) - yeahmate.....
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19 Jan 2004, 12:01 (Ref:843164)
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The decision to retain the 250s was a unanimous decision by the members of the MSMA, i.e. the factories and therefore more or less official. The 990s are eating so much money that none of them can afford a second money-eating class at GP level. So we can forget the SS600s taking over.
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27 Jan 2004, 09:09 (Ref:851965)
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good - hopefully they stay with wsbk, and wsbk pull there finger out and let r1's race cbr1000, gsxr1000 and kwaka 10
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