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FEATURED IN THE NOVEMBER 2018 ISSUE OF ROADRACING WORLD…
Looking at International-level racing today, it’s easy to understand why a non-factory podium is an event celebrated by fans and racing journalists. Aside from freak weather-impacted races, it is rare that any of the factory teams are beaten by their lesser-funded colleagues to a top-three finish, and even rarer when a satellite team beats all of the factory riders and machines. In the past decade, there has been exactly one dry-weather victory by a satellite team in MotoGP, in 2016 by Cal Crutchlow at Phillip Island, and that one came only after Marc Marquez, having already clinched the title, crashed while leading. (And given that Crutchlow is contracted directly to HRC as a development rider, calling his LCR Honda RC213V a satellite bike might be stretching the definition of “satellite.”) In that light, the accomplishments of American racer and team owner Bob MacLean are simply otherworldly…
“We suddenly were going fast and beating factory people; we had improved the results by changing the size of the rear wheel. We went to a 16.5-inch wheel. And if you remember Garry’s style, it was very speedway-ish. For the layman, they would think, ‘Man, he’s spinning the tire, it’s got to be burning up.’ But the big thing was moving the engine in the chassis. And Yamaha said, “Oh, no, no, no, that’s not gonna work. You can’t do that.’ Well Hamish Jamieson (the team’s Race Engineer) said, ‘We’re getting the results, we’re going to keep doing it.’ ”
– Bob MacLean, in the November 2018 Issue of Roadracing World
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