Superbike racing

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apparently Superbike.

You can use different gear ratios in the transmission, but you don't get to change them throughout the season.

You have to set them at the beginning of the season and then commit to that transmission and uh they were saying they had spec like a very close ratio bike with more shifting required than maybe they had done in the past but it seems to be seems to be helping that bike

I think I saw him, it may have been the first year he was pro.

He was riding alongside Ben Bostrom on an R6 for Graves Yamaha, and it was in 2008.

Went to Laguna for the Moto America or the, sorry, the AMA Superbike round there in 08.

It was the last year.

I mean, Australia is huge.

And Jack Miller moving to World Superbike, it does leave a huge hole for a big fan base.

Right.

So...

So does anything, what about him, his road, how he got to MotoGP? From starting in the Superbike paddock, you know, Moto3, Supersport, and then coming to Moto2, and he almost did it kind of seamlessly where we've seen other people struggle in the past.

Do you think they're just trying to say, this is not the path we want these riders to take to come to MotoGP?

i mean

It's a technique track.

You'll remember, like me, Joe, when the MotoGP's came in from the 500s, wasn't it? And they were able to get across Colin Edwards, Troy Bayliss.

We were able to get everybody into one championship, weren't we? And now with Toprak already here, Bulliger coming in, it kind of feels a bit like that again, doesn't it? So it's going to be great to have everybody on one grid and with a bit of a shake up in the machinery so that the Superbike guys are not having to completely adjust to a different bike as we've we've seen in the past guys have to do and sometimes not able to do it were they and even Cal took several years didn't he to find his feet and make that adjustment now such big changes the tyres seem to be the big one don't they because as you say for the lap times already for these 850s they're not far behind the 1000s so In terms of outright performance, there's not going to be a big difference.

But yeah, let's hope that the balance between the tech and the rider is a bit more equal or a bit more on the side of the rider in this new era and that we can see closer racing.

You mentioned superbike, that's interesting in the overtaking because that's the, I suppose the worry a little bit is that, well, it's not just as simple as take off the wings and then everyone overtakes each other, is it? It's such a difficult one to get that.