I believe you're missing the point Ant, that 99% of DD riders have no ambition/will/need/desire/money [delete as necessary] to climb the next rung of the ladder.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I dont know of a DD champion that has gone on to supposedly bigger things (a few have come 'down' from better things for sure), and very few other riders who have taken another, bigger series seriously. Sure, there's the KRR team, and of course the KMR team* in which Phill Clarke and I rode, Rattler, Couchy. But you get my drift.
This 848 series will not be any kind of "big brother" series to DD. I wager that it wont have more than 1 or 2 ex-DD riders, tops. For the simple reason that DD is all that the majority of us want to do - cheap racing, with good mates who respect and help each other, on hassle-free bikes, where for the most part common sense prevails.
* reminds me of the Monty Python sketch..."whatever happended to the RMK team?"
19-Nov-2009, 11:31 
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