06-20-2016, 12:40 PM
(06-20-2016, 11:19 AM)DAC_imp Wrote: Just wish Honda would update the Fireblade engine soon for use in WSBK. Been eight years, I think. When it rains, Nicky can win. In the dry, they run away from him.They need an entirely new machine with a comprehensive electronics package. It's unreal how fast some of these newer track day riders are going with that stuff. New R1's, Ducatis, etcetera, just allow you to get on the stick really early out of the turn and put the power down.
This video from my track day Saturday shows a couple of examples; first one, guy just ahead of me on a Panigale 1299 is not exactly parking it in the turn but we could've gone faster...he gives it full stick in the left-hander and almost runs off the inside of the track but keeps it on the pavement. Later a guy on a new R1 passes me on the inside at the end of the back straight but does indeed "park it" running about 25 mph off my pace. I didn't pass him because sometimes these guys will suddenly run wide; at the apex I start to go around him onto the straight, but once he starts to exit the turn, he whacks the throttle and disappears. Without TC, both these guys would have high-sided.
The speeds on the dash are high by about 15 percent.