Don't believe within any class, certainly not GP's. Honda tried to run an
oval piston V4 against the two strokes about ten years ago with their NR500
(derisively nicknamed Never Ready), but without much success. Note: both
current car and bike regs require round cylinders.
What they have done is handicap displacement for either 2 or 4 strokes (500
vs. 980 in GP in 2002) or number of cylinders (750 fours against 900 cc
triples or 1000 cc twins).
Dale C.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Beckett [mailto:landspeedracer@email.msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Maxton Motorcycle engine class question
Joe
The ECTA 2-cycle, 4-cycle classification structure was put in place because
that's what the scooter guys wanted. It's obviously doubles my data base of
records and makes extra work for me. My best guess is that about 95% of all
the records set are 4-cycle anyway. But the racers are happy and if works
for us.
Does the FIM make any distinction between the two?
JB
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administrator. Just another person who has their mailer set to just
automatically include everything in the reply. mjb.]
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