00:00The Super Sport Class 675, yeah, the same as before, and then the 700 Yamaha, you're riding that again?
00:09Yes, yeah, I'm riding the R7 again.
00:10And that will be in the new generation?
00:13Yeah, it's called Sport Bike, however the class is technically as it was.
00:18The twins are the same rules as what they were, and then the Sport Bike class is under the BSB
00:23rules.
00:24Will that change slightly for next year?
00:27Yeah, I guess that's a question for the organisers, not me, but I would imagine that that's the way the
00:32class is going to go.
00:33Yeah, this is like a stepping stone between.
00:35I would expect it to go that way, I was a little bit surprised that they called it Sport Bike,
00:40but still allowed twins as they were, because the twin is a lot faster than the Sport Bike.
00:44So I don't quite know where the logic was in that, but anyway, it is what it is.
00:50My bike tends to stay the same as what it was last year, the pattern will stay the same as
00:53what it was last year, so they'll be just as fast.
00:55Will the pattern still be legal next year?
00:58Technically it can be, but just not under the current rules.
01:00Right.
01:01So the pattern would have to run the Mektronic ECU and all the rest of it, just like what we
01:05have to do in Sport Bike.
01:06Yeah, yeah.
01:07Same as my R7, my R7 won't be legal next year as it is, we would have to change the
01:11bike back to more standard.
01:13Downtune it.
01:14Yeah, downtune it a lot.
01:17Which, to me, it sounds crazy, but I know why they're trying to do it, to balance them out.
01:21Yeah, and also because of the cost.
01:23Honestly, the cost of the twins at the minute is astronomical, like it's through the roof.
01:28They're more expensive than a Super Sport Bike, they're more expensive than a Super Sport Bike.
01:31They are pretty much the same cost, not far off as a Super Bike, and it's a twin.
01:38It's a little 650 as a majority, so I think it is about time that the class has changed for
01:45the right reasons.
01:45Yeah, so on your day job, Pete, I was going to say a day job, but your performance team, you
01:52know, you have a great reputation, not only as a rider, but as a performance team manager, you know, preparation
01:57of engines, etc.
02:00That's really highly thought of now, it's established.
02:04Hopefully.
02:04Well, it is, you've got a few wins already.
02:06Yeah, we've been doing lots of stuff, so we build most of the 765s in the world, actually.
02:12So, we even do, in the world championship, we build the 765 engines for the PTR team, for the Cosmos
02:17team that are in world championship at the minute.
02:19We've done some for Daytona that have won Daytona before, we obviously run our own.
02:23We've run for other teams and stuff as well, we've built quite a lot of engines.
02:27The Crow brothers, we've built their engines the last two years.
02:30Since they started winning, I reckon we've already been there somewhere, but no, we've been building their engines for a
02:36few years.
02:36Yeah, they're really tough with them.
02:38Yeah, we've been really good.
02:39Yeah, good.
02:39And they're hoping to get a bit more, even more out of...
02:42Yeah, we're trying, we're trying.
02:43Obviously, the rules have changed for the sidecars for this year to try and pull them back a little bit.
02:48And we're doing our best.
02:51They think they could drop quite a few miles an hour after...
02:54They think so.
02:55Yeah, which is the idea, to slow everyone out.
02:57Yeah, I know, I know, yeah.
02:57So, it's 121, and I think it's going to come down a fair bit from that, but no doubt they'll
03:04be still trying as hard as ever.
03:09So, let's go.
03:09So, let's go.
03:10So, let's go.
03:10So, let's go.
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