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Isn't that the reason to have a factory team, to sell motorcycles.?
you would think AMA would welcome new brand, new team more riders... equals more money.!
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You dont want a backyard built bike to be able to compete because that is kinda scary, but small overseas manufacturers like TM, Beta, GasGas and Sherco should be able to field a team as long as the prove that the bikes are available to US buyer through dealers
Say a factory TM team has 2 riders and a new bike every weekend (ignoring practice bikes). That's 58 bikes a year in the U.S. Make homologation something like 50% and that means they need to provide 29 bikes of that model to the U.S. consumer at a minimum. It would still give access to a privateer or support team. They can look at previous years sale records and come up with a realistic number to make this possible. Raise the % incrementally the following year if they meet their minimum the year before. If they eventually get to the current homologation number remove the % clause.
The public doesnt have access to the top factory riders equipment as it is. The best you can do is a high dollar aftermarket everything bike.
I actually think that the rule has increased the performance but also the cost of production bikes massively as they need to have so much already there to build a race bike. As apposed to focussing on keeping production costs low and making one off hyper specific race bikes
Even the factory teams run largely production machines.
They wont meet sales requirements for the next year - and a first year - start up national effort, wouldn't be very successful - at least not for the investment amount
Give that option to most pros - and they will make the bike worse. They often make the bike worse with the “legal” changes they do now
Herlings somehow still kicked everyones ass on a production bike - 2 years back
The majority of gp teams start with production bikes and tweak to suit
Opening the rules could allow frame constructors into the sport like what is done for moto 2 in gp racing
For some teams, being able to make a specfic part that isnt production could save money vs what is required to modify oem parts
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