MOTOAMERICA JUNIOR CUP
P110
Feature
"I think the only situation KTM would
be happy with is to unrestrict all the
bikes," says Morse. "They've obviously
put in a lot of work into that bike, and we
understand the effort that they've put into
it. However, going into this thing, we told
everyone that the bikes would be balanced. It's be-
cause we're trying to make the riders [shine]—this
class isn't necessarily about the bikes. So, I
understand, but I don't know if there's much
we can do about it. There's other classes
that are completely unrestricted."
Regarding KTM's development of a race
machine costing the best part of $20,000,
Morse said, "We thought we discouraged that by
the balancing, but the balancing is going to con-
Alex Dumas has
been one of the
stars of the field,
riding one of
two KTM Orange
Brigade RC 390 R
machines.
DALE QUARTERLY– Quarterly On
R
acing veteran Dale Quarterly runs
current Junior Cup front-runner
Jamie Astudilo and lately, Utah winner
Renzo Ferreira on Kawasaki Ninja 400s
with team co-owner, Bob Robbins.
"First of all, there's no way of fixing
reality, and the reality is somebody is
always going to make a motorcycle
that's faster than the other ones," says
Quarterly. "So now you're trying to
de-tune a faster motorcycle [Ninja 400
and KTM RC 390 R]. There's kind of
no reality to that, either. Depending on
how you attempt to do it, you're block-
ing that motorcycle from some sort of
ability. Now it has no top-end, or you
limit it with rpm and it can get there as
fast as it wants, but you're going to just
be hitting the rev limiter and it won't go
anywhere. So that's the first side.
"The second piece, I think, is my ar-
gument right from the get-go—Yamaha
