This might interest you guys. It looks to me like the two strokes killed off the four strokes in European F750, then gave the game away. Perhaps race class designers should take technology into consideration ?:
If my memory serves correct Pat and Barry were on 500s in the '77 Race of the Year. Everyone else was on 750s. We had the 500s going nearly as fast or faster than the XR23s (680s) end of '77 and were much more interested in focusing on developing them for the GPs. I believe Pat broke Steve Baker's lap record on the OW31 the previous year by a wide margin. We had pretty much lost all interest in F750 midway thru the '77 season and eventually stopped going to F750 races, as did a number of other riders. The number of GPs was increasing every year and there just wasn't time or resources to compete in both GPs and F750. Following the last GP of '77 (the British GP at Silverstone, which Pat won), all the riders met with the FIM and asked that F750 be killed for that reason. Barry did a great job of representing the riders at that meeting, which was held in a large auditorium. The FIM concurred and that was the end of F750.
We actually tried to reurect F750 in Victoria but just did not get the support. Maybe if people put there hands up it can again be considered if we know there are machines ready.
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European Formula 750
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Posted - 02 Jun 2013 : 2:57:24 PM
