I heard a story once, and I don't know if it's true, but I hope it is. Noriyuki Haga in practice at Hockenheim (?) was clocked in practice at 199mph, the highest speed ever recorded on a 500cc 2-stroke GP bike. The press were all over him between sessions. The next session he was clocked at 200mph, and the journo's asked what is was like doing 200mph on a motorcycle, and his response - "It's like 199mph, but a just little bit faster".
@@racepnd You're right. I just did some more searching, and it was Shinichi Ito in 1993 on the injected big bang NSR500. At least I had the track right! 🙂 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prix_motorcycle_racing#:~:text=1992%3A%20Honda%20introduces%20the%20NSR500,class%20switches%20to%20unleaded%20fuel. Haga was on the YZR500 in 2001.
I ve ridden there, best track in the world❤️, my seconde one is quatar and then Barcelona. But mugello straight first corner brake is crazy! (with 1000rr its 300pm/h)
Comments about the TT guys compared to these guys, the TT guys probably wouldn’t win races in motogp The motogp guys have nothing to prove, they race the world premier class so why do they want to run the risk of killing themselves, they prove their skills just the same thus much bigger pay packets to boot. Any TT guy would love a motogp ride and with the awesome pay packet.
@@mooncat.787more likely for a TT rider to win a GP race than for a GP rider to win the TT. You can only throw so much safety rules and regs at a sport until it becomes a game.
@@mooncat.787 utterly delusional, I bet you also think F1 and GP drivers are superheroes. Easier for a TT rider to push at a safe and comfy racetrack with a huge support team than it is for one of your golden boys to show up at the TT and put it all on the line, funny the OP had to go cope about the “awesome pay packet” 🤣 if anything that makes the TT riders even more respectable.
@@nichtgefunden404 And where did I say GP riders and F1 drivers are my hero's ? Where did I say I have no respect for TT riders ? Where did I say GP riders are golden boys ? Quite how you could write a post that to me is worthless in merit and content without knowing one single thing about me or my knowledge of motorcycles is frankly breathtaking. When you have some factual things to say well then get back to me.
Isle of Man riders hit 210mph very bloody lap. On a course that has stone walls and houses and lamp posts and stuff. MotoGP's got nothing on the TT or any course on the Irish Road Racing Circuit.
I am not disputing what you said, but what is the threshold between safe and too dangerous? If they slowed them down to 290KM/H how much safer is that than say 310 KM/H?
@blackened4me yeah true even 200kmh is lethal. I think in the future there top will be around 360kmh that's exciting enough for the rider & fans , if they don't start slowing them down pretty soon they be doing 400kmh.
There are 3 countries around the world still using the imperial system of measurements. Those crazy poms use a mixture of metric and imperial. For example, they sell fuel in litres but use miles for their speed limits. 😱🤪
The metric system is illogical. Imperial/standard units are closer to what human beings have used for millennia to measure things because they are easy to comprehend.
Hi impressive however i wonder if races could be exciting anyway with lower top speeds I think so It is the noise from exhaust pipes that excites It is very easy to understand this Just listen when the bikes takes up rpms standing still at the start It is the noise the key to excitement imho I would halve the displacement and make 500cc the top
I just love moto gp and bikes but it's a bit silly comparing them to F1. Despite being almost 30 mph faster on the straight gp bikes are like 30 seconds slower on the lap. F1 is so boring to watch but they are fast as bullet on a track.
Last time I went to Mugello for MotoGP (2019) Petrucci, Dovizioso and Marquez went 3-wide into turn 1 on the last lap. The podium was covered by .338 sec. F1 is just a fast parade of fancy nancies, it shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as MotoGP.
MONSTER ENERGY RECORDED VERY RECENTLY A TRACK DAY WITH all guys, Dunlop, Hickey, Rossi, Bagnanaia, pretty much almost 10 guys from each division, like almost 30 guys between motogp, sbk and TT. All guys respect and admire each other in their fields. You shoul see. It was more like a friends meeting with some track action so they could get some info and tips from each other than a competition.
