So Honda pushed for the 800's? Did they push to have the V5's advantage taken away too (when the 800 regs came out the v5 weight limit was moved up into the 6 cylinder catagory) as they realised it was too good?
Also to be fair if Honda didn't play in the 500's there would have been no bikes on the grid, in the final 500GP there were 9 non Honda bikes, only four fast ones and it had been that way for 10 years.
If Honda "bugger off" from the 125's and 250's it'll be the Aprilia Cup with one or two factory KTM's, Derbi's or Gilera's occasionally in the top 10, the manufacturers doing the real damage to the 125 and 250's cause and likelyhood to stay are the other guys (Yam, Suzuki, Kawasaki and maybe even Ducati) who are standing there saying "no, we won't race at all until you go 4 stroke", and of couse Gillera, Derbi and KTM who don't supply customer race bikes full stop.
It really makes me laugh, yes Honda may do many questionable things but they also do something amazing, they field 6 bikes capable of winning in the top class with 6 top riders and let all them race for the title, no team orders or anything else like that, ever, without them MotoGP would be rubbish and the 500's would have died in the 80's.
Yamaha field one fast bike, they give Edwards the fast kit when it suits Vale and give any old rubbish to Tech 3 (Elison stuck with the chatter chassis Vale couldn't get into the top 10 for the entire season last year?)
Suzuki haven't until this year run anything likely to win on a level playing field ever, ditto Kawasaki and only two bikes each, no satalite teams, no customer bikes, nothing.
Ducati are forgiven for (normally) only running one "real" team and one "last years bikes" team as they are small.
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