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I suggest that racing the 961 would be a useless exercise unless there was a class to suit which involved other bikes of similar technology, 'Racing improves the breed', and as soon as you start racing a new bike, bits start breaking and falling off it. For the factory to run the 961 in a superbike race would be foolish , it would probably give a very bad showing which would destroy potential sales. I cannot see the point in running a 'Norton' race bike with the Aprilia engine, however a decent performance might be a demonstration of competence on the part of the factory. As far as the rotaries were concerned, that was a pointless exercise - there was never going to be any spin-off for road machines. All that happens is the race speeds of all the bikes take a quantum leap upwards, and it all becomes that much more dangerous.