(28-07-2009, 12:04 PM)Manx Mist Wrote: Apparently its the ACU Road Race Committee who have brought this in, not the FIM.

I had my mate on the phone this morning blowing his stack after receiving the memo with his entry, he'd been chasing people on the phone trying to talk some sense into the powers that be, and asking them for suggestions on how to keep a highly strung 250 to 60kph successfully without needing a plug change at the end of the pit lane!

It gets worse.......we've now heard a rumour that the 60kph limit starts at the end of the police station road!! which is the very beginning of the concrete apron for the pits, if this is the case we will have a combination of bikes slowing to 37mph on the actual road itself and traffic going straight through doing around 145 - 150mph within a few feet of the slowing bikes.

Hmmm that'll make for safer racing then!!

I really think people need to think and apply a little common sense before getting too carried away.

Does it really matter who introduced it? At the end of the day the FIM were responsible for the ludicrous chicane at Silverstone. You only have to look at the hoops Silverstone has to go through at the moment to see how the FIM can work.

Phil Taubman is a sensible guy he wouldn’t issue a statement that was completely inaccurate. If they are going to use transponder loops the top won’t be up by the police station road. For the transponders to work effectively they need to be roughly at right angle to the direction the bikes are travelling this would make sense as the original statement says it will be just before the start of the Armco. About where the stop box is now! So pulling off the road should be safer.
I suspect somebody has heard about the lines to mark the entry and exit lanes for the pit lane put 2+2 together and come up with 47!

Except for the classics or if a race is shortened to three laps the bikes passing each other shouldn’t be a problem as over 4 laps the difference between to front and back of the field isn’t big enough to cause the leaders to be in amongst the backmarkers during pit stop time. At least not at the Manx!

As for your mate’s problem with the 250, he should be grateful he’s not ridding a 125! At least he’s got a much bigger spread of power than me. I know what the answer from the FIM/ACU (whichever you chose to believe is behind this) will be “they manage it in GP’s with the super highly strung Aprilia’s”.

It’s here, for good, or for bad and the MMCC are doing everything they can to help. I’m sure if people are having major problems or it’s causing serous issues then they will try to change things as much as they can to help.
Equally I’m sure that constructive ideas will be welcomed.

I also think the FIM/ACU is using this as a test for the TT where the problem is worse and the problems it will cause are worse.

As for what I think of it. Despite all the problems I think this is a real improvement over the stop box and probably long overdue.

Anybody who is interested should look at the FIM web site it outlines all the requirements for pit lanes, entry and exit lanes and specifies a speed limit of 60kph.