Originally Posted by
Doosh
Oh, I could believe that. How many laps is this race? Do the math.
The thing is, even single hundredths off the pace results in a race that's not even close visually. At 186MPH, you are moving roughly 2 feet every hundredth of a second. Add that up over 20-30 laps and in a race distance that's absolutely huge.
So, while 2 seconds doesn't seem like much, the gap actually needs to be in the thousandths to be a "photo finish", and that's just for one lap! The accumulation of gap over the race distance will be significant.
If the race leaders are running 1:30s, and EBR is off the pace by 4 seconds, one must anticipate the possibility they will be lapped. I don't know the race distance, but this isn't hard to calculate.
I'm absolutely excited EBR is in WSBK -- I think it's what they need to do to develop that bike -- but let's be honest with ourselves this inaugural season about realistic outcomes. And, certainly, don't expect a bias press who's job is to appeal to the majority to sell ads to give much notice to a tiny sliver of a market share boutique like EBR just yet.