MOTOGP » MotoGP reaches 100

Looking at these statistics, it is quite incredible what Rossi has achieved over the last five years.

Get in Burnsie is in the history books, last rider to ride a 2 stroke!

Bring back the 2 strokes!

Totally agree Moot!

Now they also plan to drop the 250's for 600cc fourstrokes... where's this going?
Do they sit aroung sucking their thumbs thinking of another way to screw up the races?
It'll end as a ordinairy production class

Don't think they could ever bring the strokers back as top of the bill - but I can't see why they couldn't have them as a support race. Would be interesting to see how the boy wonders who have never been on a 500 would cope ?

Bear in mind if strokers were back in MotoGP, they would probably have all the same electronic gizmos of traction control, anti-spin, launch control etc etc so would probably be far more user friendly than previously the case.
I'd love to see it happen - 2 strokes are true racing bikes, but the treehunggers have put the bone on them, as just about everything else that is enjoyable in life.

There will be no life soon, at this rate we'll all end in the morgue.

Just so Mr Morgue.

Hear what your saying about the strokers boys but unfortunately technology moves on. Strokers had their day but 4-strokes are the future BUT they have to look at ways to make the racing more exciting now and make sure they get it right when the 250's and 125's eventually go. Look on the bright side, at least the technology that is being developed in the 4's will eventually find its way into the road bikes, this wouldn't have happened if the 500's were still the premier class. And as Lann quite rightly points out electronics would have dumbed them down anyway. ,

And how many people out there have ever bought a 500 2-stroke for the road, I have but I'm old! As much as I miss 'em they are an irrelevant technology. 250's will suffer the same fate, certainly here in Oz they are also dead duck's.