Brembo slotted discs and 6-piston calipers are coming to Superbike

In those days, street-legal sports bike were much less sophisticated than they are today. That applies both to performance - acceleration and top speed, and to chassis architecture, including the braking system, to say nothing of electronics, basically a future development.

The early championships were pretty rough and ready in general, from team organization to the preparation of the riders, as well as the rules themselves. No one at the time, for example, thought of having a car on the track out ahead of the bikes on the warm-up lap. ​