Last October the FIM published new regulations for its SBK World Championship in which it established by regulation the minimum total weight between rider and motorcycle, popularly named the ‘Anti-Bautista Law’, a change demanded by Álvaro’s rivals. , especially the largest and heaviest in the grid. The average of the grid was made and since half of them were strong and muscular, the ‘normal’ riders, with a MotoGP prototype, lost.
“I love that ‘anti-Bautista law’ because in the end, it is reality. Nobody complained a couple of years ago. Things are stinging,” Bautista wrote on his social networks on October 11, the day the law was announced. .
At the Media Day this Wednesday of the Superbikes Barcelona Motorfest, four riders called out the SBK Alvaro Bautista and Xavi Viergeand the grid members for the Women’s World Cup which starts in mid-June, Ana Carrasco and Sara Sánchez They share their impressions of this ‘evil’ common to all of them, including Vierge, a pilot who is 1.75 meters tall, eight centimeters taller than the man from La Mancha.
Álvaro Bautista said this: “At first I didn’t take it well, I think this rule on these bikes is ridiculous because they are 12 kilos heavier than MotoGP and I was surprised that it is always said to be light and small riders with this type of motorcycle cost us a little, we have more disadvantages than advantages. And now ‘the weight is what I earned’. It is It doesn’t seem very logical to me. This rule is illogical, the motorcycle because it’s already difficult for me, I had to work with my body in the changes of direction, I can’t put the same weight that the big riders carry, coming out of a corner I always end up with no direction on the bike.”
“I agree 100% that there is more equality, more balance, but this is not the solution. And not only for me, but for many pilots who are of normal height to be a pilot, I consider myself who is on the low side. normal height. What is not normal for being motorcycle riders are guys almost 2 meters tall weigh 90 kilos, dedicate yourself to something else. Those motorcycle riders thin, thin, light, which is what catches, that’s as if “I start playing basketball, I think it’s not my place.”
“I will handle myself worse than last year because the disadvantages I have gained have increased and the few advantages I have will be removed, I will surely do worse. It is worse in general,” ‘Bati’ ditches.
And even if it seems that Xavi Vierge is the opposite because he is taller, the HRC rider must also be weighed: “I am like Álvaro, I have to put almost 4 kilos on a motorcycle where I start from the back. All my life I have been told that in the small categories It has to be ballasted because obviously there is quite a big difference, the power is small, the bikes are small in weight and they have more riders and there is a difference between them. In a big one like MotoGP or Superbike there are a lot of power. In my box we have the same cases of Iker (Lecuona) and I. Iker weighs about 10 kilos more than me. It is true that my bike runs faster at the end of the straight, but my partner is capable of carrying twice the amount of tires, stopping the bike even more and turning it. And as Álvaro said, the few advantages I had were taken away from me and they won.”
“And this is a strange rule because the minimum weight of the pilot must be 80 kilos with overalls and no clothes, you have to be 70-71 kilos and an elite athlete like me has to stop entering and eating at McDonalds every day. to weigh that. It’s not about gaining weight, to feel agile I need to have my weight. I promise you I train like an animal and I eat like an animal and my weight is 65 -66 kilos and with mono 74-75 kilos and reaching 80 kilos is impossible,” cried Vierge.
Ana Carrasco (1.56 m-53 kg) spent his entire career in sports. “I was always overweight, in SSP300 I carried 14 kilos, in Moto3 I carried 10 kg. Because of my body I am short and as a woman I weigh less even though I am the same height. All my life I have to live with that. I partially understand what they say For them, 300 is not the same as 1000. As it happened to them, I was well below average. In 300 it is a low-powered motorcycle and weighs 150 kilos and Adding 14 kilos to it is outrageous. It’s a complex issue. and in my case it always hurts me.”
Source: La Verdad
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