MotoGP News
Date: 28/06/2011
The five new teams granted a place on the 2012 MotoGP grid won't be able to break into the top ten.
That's the view of new MotoGP race winner Ben Spies.
The Texan was asked for his opinion on the new class of 2012 Claiming Rule Teams, which will use motorcycles powered by modified Superbike engines.
Spies is one of the few riders in MotoGP with an extensive Superbike background, winning the American Championship three times and then the World Superbike championships, at his first attempt, in 2009.
But even though the CRTs will be allowed more fuel and engine changes than the ultra-expensive factory machines built by the likes of Honda, Yamaha and Ducati, Spies thinks the odds of being competitive are stacked against them.
"They’ve got to come out with something good and then they've got to pay somebody to ride it that is better than the riders on the factory bikes," said Spies.
"So I don’t see them competing in the top ten. No."
The CRT idea has been born in order to boost MotoGP grid numbers from a slender 17 full time riders and coincides with the change from 800cc to 1000cc engines for 2012.
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