Ducati Sporting Club UK > DesmoDue Race Series > DesmoDue - General Questions and Chat > moving on from the "we seem to have an extra round"

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Originally posted by paynep
2006 thoughts:

Fil and Ali have shown that a BB'd carb bike can beat 620's so machinery-wise it should be a simple 2 classes - 583cc with std CV carbs i.e the "budget" way and 620cc injected (NO bigbores)/674cc carbed.

How you regulate the eligibility of riders is another matter, there will always be a difference in experience and ability as the two are not the same...............

Anyway, back to the supercharger plans....

Thanks Paul, I'm glad I'm not on my own thinking the 675 is plenty capable of stitching up a 620. It was proved at CC when 4 bb bikes matched me on speed and beat me on track knowledge/rider ability.
My sympathies (if that's the right word!) go to the standard 583 runners, but will there be enough entrants to justify a separate class? And would the 583's want to be fighting in their own class for an easy top 3, or making a challenge to pick off the bigger bikes?

As it stands, I say leave it like it is with one class.
If it could be sustained, I would be happy to see this as an entry level series which pervents anyone starting the season w/o a novice licence. But as I said, only if it could be sustained.

I do like the idea of a 2 day event, and maybe this could even be coordinated with 2 nearby circuits (Mallory/Donny?) to make it more interesting.