CRT - Whats it all about?

CRT - Claiming Rules Team as its now known or Contructors Racing Team as it will/should be known. The action to get more teams in GP without having the megabucks that the factories throw at GP, and so now for the cost of Valentino Rossi's earplugs anyone can enter as a CRT team. That is as long as you are not connected with a factory or are backed by anyone who is associated with a factory. Infact what makes you a CRT team is so ambiguous and open to interupration that no one really knows what qualifies you for CRT status, more correctly we know

what will definetly exclude you from CRT status.

CRT bikes will be allowed more fuel and more engines: while factory bikes will have 21 litres of fuel and 6 engines in 2012, the CRT bikes get 24 litres per race, and 12 engines for the season.

Well thats unfair, so the factories (honda, yamaha, ducati) can claim an engine from a CRT garage. For €20k they get the engine and gearbox . Cheap for a GP bikes bits but reality is that no self respecting factory would be caught dead buying an engine from the CRT garages.

So, if you want to enter as a CRT dont work in, or invest in, or be associated with a factory.

Is CRT a good idea? Yes, 11 bikes confirmed for 2012 to add to the 12 factory bikes. Mores bikes = More fun, just dont call them Claiming Rule Teams or Cathode Ray Tubes.