Comparison test: 600 super sports car, four-cylinder, two-cylinder

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Comparison test: 600 super sports car, four-cylinder, two-cylinder
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Comparison test: 600 super sports car, four-cylinder, two-cylinder

Comparison test: 600 super sports car, four-cylinder, two-cylinder
Masterbike 2008

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Slipper or lollipop? The 11th masterbike “Traditional event” to name, sounds harmless like a sports home showcase. In fact, a load of racing drivers are competing on a Spanish racetrack. The search for the vintage thing from the Ring. PS peeked over the stack of tires.

Markus Jahn

06/19/2008

Feed your fear

M-A-S-T-E-R-B-I-K-E. This is how it looks written. As simple as its rules, so intricate in detail. First of all, let’s clarify the official: three classes, each one a winner ?? and they then stick to the finals across all classes. The 2008 championship motorcycle is finished. Okay, that was very rough. A little more detailed now for the fine spirits among us. There is the superbike class, i.e. 1000cc four-cylinder, including a lonely Suzuki 750cc. Furthermore, the Japanese 600s rattle for their laurels with the bassy, ​​three-cylinder 675 Triumph. Well, then there’s the class “European, agricultural vehicles”, among the fans “strong character two-cylinder” called.

Since we’re at the thigh knock: What does Ducati boss Claudio Domenicali say to the home office phone in the direction of Albacete when the existing Masterbike standard tires GP Racer from Dunlop do not harmonize with his Ducati 1098R? Right, quite the Italian mountain hunter: “Forward comrades, we’re marching back!” Not even an on-site copy of PS 5/2008 and the reference to the fastest lap time in the mega test with Dunlop tires prevented the Italians from withdrawing like a rocket. Bang. Roll gate down. I finished. Is that someone laughing in Orange-City Mattighofen? Just wait, it’s your turn too. Pooh. There is just a group driving picture in the box, the Ducati transporter has disappeared, and with this stress you are already sweating on your forehead.

Time for contemplation, humility and actually a thank you to Italy. BMW is podium! In our minds we can already see the painful Tuesday motorsport artillery column by the cyclist and Austrian exiled Gunther W .: “BMW back on the road of the winner.” Strike! We don’t even want to start with the European Football Championship. Assuming Kevin Kuranyi stays at Schalke. Oh yes, but we were actually quite serious with the two-cylinder engines. Let’s check this class off right away. Hook. Hook? Hooked gear! KTM’s RC8 demonstrated switching noises, as if it wanted to deafen the rabbits hopping around in Albacete. Noise, thump, thump. So banal. So brutal. A gear for Schuhplattler and Schwarzeneggers, but not for chasing times. KTM press man Thomas Kuttruf was close to tears. Aprilia also, but that because they are ultimately very close KTM were in the final. End of first act.

Curtain up


Comparison test: 600 super sports car, four-cylinder, two-cylinder


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Whether Randy Mamola and colleagues already know that the BMW is on their necks?

The curtain rises again. In a dark box, sweaty men in leather suits that have been lowered are sitting and loosing sandwiches. In the internal jargon, these grim figures are also used “Motorcycle racer” or “Professionals” called because these gentlemen earn their money or bocadillo with extremely quickly completed laps opposite hobby speed drivers who are also buzzing around the scene. Randy Mamola, two-wheel philosopher and ex-500cc GP star, as well as Jurgen Fuchs, known from film, funk and onboard, came especially with a whimsical, bald mental trainer. Then Alessandro Gramigni, 125cc world champion in 1992. The Italian is a motorcycle freak in the best sense of the word, so physically scarred that he is putting out forest fires for the professional fire brigade in Florence only in swimming trunks.

Now racing drivers are wrongly regarded as hallodris who shy away from work and gaze after the lovely femininity all day. It cannot stand that way. Let’s just look at our slide king, Mark Cernicky: drove the Isle of Man before he hit the racetrack; since the penultimate masterbike he has lost 20 kilos and no longer burps in public! Or the always friendly Oriol Fernández, who takes the time for tests like the masterbike and does his chord times on Mondays in the far south of France. Well the truth is the man practically did one “own” MotoGP motorcycle and drives from morning to evening in his capacity as Michelin MotoGP development driver only the very best racing tires of the latest technology, so that Mr. Lorenzo and Mr. Pedrosa have more free time. Which hobby driver would like to do something like that to himself??

But we digress, the 600 class is just coming to an end. In the course of the last ten years there have been all kinds of complaints about victory and defeat and the injustices of this world. The current rating system appears balanced in the circumstances. The fastest lap times of the 13 drivers and all motorcycles in the respective class result in a theoretical best time in class. The actual best time of the individual motorcycle, again averaged and thus the smallest gap, results in the number of points. Then the number of best times plus a driver evaluation system is added, and ?? Hocus-pocus ?? the computer fed in this way spits out a result.

final


Comparison test: 600 super sports car, four-cylinder, two-cylinder


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Champagne instead of E10 fuel: the Honda crew celebrates victory. The Yamaha takes second place, while the Aprilia takes third place as the best two-cylinder.

Understood? No? Never mind. The manufacturer representatives also pondered for a while. In the 600s, 9 out of 13 riders set their fastest time on the Yamaha, 3 on the Triumph and a single confused man on the Kawasaki. Triumph clears the drivers’ standings with 9.6 out of 10 possible points. But it doesn’t count that much, and that’s it Yamaha in the final! Second place is first loser! The Triumph men took it calmly, rebooked their flights and with a diabolical grin promised to regain their class victory next year. Down the curtain. Last act. Let’s be honest. So far everything has been Killefitz! It’s about the big things. Men’s motorcycles! Thousands of thick smoke!

Even an Oriol Fernández makes no secret of it: driving 600 is not his passion. But point straight into the corner, turn diagonally and out again with maximum acceleration, Oriol likes that too. When asked about his favorite, he only has one answer: “Honda”. What the gentlemen in green didn’t want to hear at all. A whole Kawasaki delegation from Japan examined this year’s Masterbike suspiciously and recorded every little pit activity. But it happened as it had to: five best times with the Honda, four with the Kawasaki, two with the MV, Agusta, one each with the Gixxer and the R1. Zero for the 750. Plus the best rating from Honda again. Fake Honda Fireblade in the final against Aprilia Mille and Yamaha R6.

Let’s not artificially maintain tension at this point. The final was more of a formality, the Honda won over the Yamaha R6 and the Aprilia Mille. For Albacete connoisseurs to try for yourself: 1: 36.434 was Oriol Fernández’s best time of the day with the Fireblade. Incidentally, if someone happens to take a test ride on a CBR 1000 RR at Herbert Speer in Reutlingen, it could very well happen that they are sitting on exactly the masterbike winning motorcycle. The Honda was a customer test motorcycle only rented in Germany, which otherwise, hopefully, does its rounds of the Swabian Alb in a very good manner and without slipping.

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