Även om jag inte kommer bli en kalenderbitare av din rang så kanske du missade det historiska faktumet att 2taktaren inte vart konkurranskraftiga i Mgp och förstår att det är extra bittert nu då Moto2 ersätter 250GP.
By 2003 no two-stroke machines remained in the MotoGP field
http://en.allexperts.com/e/g/gr/grand_prix_motorcycle_racing.htm
Den där formuleringen säger inget om när under 2003 som 2-taktarna försvann, bara att de försvann under 2003.
Jag kan ge dig en källa på att 2-taktare kördes i motogp under 2003 om du vill:
http://www.motomatters.com/interview/2009/11/12/peter_clifford_interview_wcm_blata_and_p.html
Well in 2002, end of 2002, Yamaha said that they weren't going to make enough M1s for everybody and we were going to be unlucky. At the same time, Red Bull decided that they were no longer going to continue either, so we were left with no sponsor and no machinery. It was a question of either basically stay home or go racing and my business partner Bob McLean and I decided that we wanted to go racing. Carmelo Ezpeleta said, "Look, Peter, you have to turn up with something, anything, because it's all going to get better, I'm going to get the Japanese to produce more motorcycles for everybody, so you've just got to survive through 2003 with whatever you can muster".
We were still a month away from having our own castings, so we summoned up our old 500s, our ROC Yamahas which we raced prior to the factory Yamaha days. One was in my place in New Zealand and one was at Bob's place at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and we mixed them up with a Sabre Sport ROC 500 and produced a couple of bikes by mixing and matching all the bits, which the guys ran at Donington, Sachsenring and Brno.