Polish silencer has got an approval from FIM and it is possible for riders to use it in 2015. It is said that during the tests which were made by riders themselves it made great impression, much better than so called “new silencer” which was used for a few season and it has still been a subject of many discussions. What does Tomasz Gollob think on this matter?
- The difference is cosmic! As far as I remember when I used through silencer, a bike had more energy it was possible to ride in a close contact. Engine reacted on your movements of accelerator. It is known that speedway bike has no brakes so it is very important that when I closed – engine braked. In case of new silencers fumes which were present inside and couldn’t go out caused that bike reacted with some delay. There were less injuries than after introducing so called new silencer and it was possible to do incredible actions on a track. In my opinion, everything was better. Is is worth to mention that costs were much lower because equipment wasn’t so hot.
What did it exactly mean? Well, chamber which was previously through, was shut. There was flow of this chamber through different labyrinths where this air couldn’t go out. It caused that silencer choked, was full of gases and the engine couldn’t empty. Because of that it was harder, more complicated to ride. When I closed accelerator at straight or at bend, bike was still riding because fumes which were cumulated under head, were excreted too late. Because of that engine reacted later and braked after some time.
This silencer, which we used so far, will be in my mind as something unsuccessful but I count that this through silencer which I will definitely use. Speedway is a discipline which is known for noise. If we limited noise for example in Formula 1, then it wouldn’t be Formula 1 races but we would associate it with vacuum cleaners racing. This silencer is to make speedway more audible to put the whole dynamics in it. That’s my opinion on this subject. – ends Tomasz Gollob
