u/Egoist-a

This weekend at most was proper "Ducati Cup". No matter how much you limit the power of Ducatis, the japanese manufactuers are still nowhere in a track where there aren't big straights.

There isn't much more FIM/Dorna can do when the bike's performance delta is so big.

The championship has only 2 ways to go:

1st - Go full BoP like WSSP, where the performance of the road bike is irrelevant. FIM will manipulate the power and weight to make (or try) everybody have the same potential speed. Good oportunity to bring other manufactuers like Aprilia, Suzuki, CFmoto, or MV Agusta since the sport will become much cheaper.

A shame there won't be as much incentive to improve road bikes.

2nd - Keep going like it is and accept that Japanese manufacturers eventually will disapear from the grid.

Japanese are not the same companies we knew 20 and 30 years ago. Japanese now are being run by bean counter, if it doesn't sell millions, they kill it. Honda sells 20million bikes a year. Yamaha sells 5 million a year. Ducati sells 65k, BMW sells only 200k.

They make no new superbikes anymore because they don't bring big bucks. But they also don't compete in anything else High end. They still have the highest budget for marketing and R&D BY FAR, but they chose not to invest in racing or anything high end market.

BMW 1300GS, Multistrada V4, Tiger 1200, 1390 Adv. have no competition from japan.

Hypernakeds like SFV4, Tuono V4 Factory, 1390 SuperDuke, M1000R, Brutale 1000, etc, have no competition from japan.

And now is the end of superbikes.

So whats the best solution. Go full BoP that will allow the sueprbike dinossaurs to be competitive against M1000RRs and V4Rs, and allure new manufacturers? or we keep the darwin rules and let Ducati (and maybe BMW) dominate, at the risk of killing the series?

As much as it pains me WSBK go away from it's origins of developing road bikes to race, I think BoP is the best option.

Whats your opinon?