Eddy you know we love ya but dear God you're stubborn!  

This change has nothing to do with safety (and again you know why I think that) and it has nothing to do with bikes getting faster.  It was merely change for the sake of it.  The original system worked fine - nothing wrong with it.

In another thread you brought my name up in connection with this but I'll respond on here.  You suggested that as a photographer I should just 'work harder' to understand what was going on.  My answer to that is that delivering publishable images is difficult enough in itself.  On top of that I need to write reports - again of publishable standard.  Therefore it's important for me to be able to interpret the race as the guys I report on may not necessarily get featured in every commentary.  That is not possible under the new system and I can't do my job if I'm constantly peering at a device of some sort to get the placings etc.  Frankly, if we're all going to have to do that then what's the point of even being there?

Eddy - the new system (in my opinion) is NOT safer than the old one - I believe it to be more dangerous (again, my opinion) and it certainly isn't customer friendly (everyone's opinion - including every racer I've spoken to!)