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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J4rn0 @ Nov 26 2009, 05:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>A 1000cc prototype with 23-24 liters of fuel would not nned to be a super-sophisticated engine. No use running into complications, even with spring valves and "ordinary" materials it would produce enough power to make technological escalations useless.
This also means many would be able to rent engines and maintain them, as KR was doing with Honda. I do not see much use in having stock-derived units at that point. Many smaller manufacturers could also enter the MotoGP arena developing entire bikes, engine included.
A limitation in the processing power of the ECUs would also be desirable and could reinforce this scenario. Less costs, more competition, more teams and bikes on the grid
Some very bright ideas there, and I agree. I think it is a foregone conclusion that there will be a capacity increase, and although I could see a single manufacturer supplying a control plant to all the entire grid, and I very much disagree that the engines will be one off prototypes. Personally, I see this going in very much the same way as the old Formula One class which preceded Superbike on short circuit racing, and was then adopted during the late eighties by the road racing season. In other words, a production engine housed in a prototype frame; - Moto 2 is the harbringer of this, and to me - where the big class is concerned, this would not constitute Grand Prix Motorcycle racing, as many would perceive and desire it to be. You can also begin to logically envisage how the vision of the amalgamation between Superbike and Moto GP into one single championship (that Francis Batta was aluding to in the press this week), could in fact come to pass.
This also means many would be able to rent engines and maintain them, as KR was doing with Honda. I do not see much use in having stock-derived units at that point. Many smaller manufacturers could also enter the MotoGP arena developing entire bikes, engine included.
A limitation in the processing power of the ECUs would also be desirable and could reinforce this scenario. Less costs, more competition, more teams and bikes on the grid
Some very bright ideas there, and I agree. I think it is a foregone conclusion that there will be a capacity increase, and although I could see a single manufacturer supplying a control plant to all the entire grid, and I very much disagree that the engines will be one off prototypes. Personally, I see this going in very much the same way as the old Formula One class which preceded Superbike on short circuit racing, and was then adopted during the late eighties by the road racing season. In other words, a production engine housed in a prototype frame; - Moto 2 is the harbringer of this, and to me - where the big class is concerned, this would not constitute Grand Prix Motorcycle racing, as many would perceive and desire it to be. You can also begin to logically envisage how the vision of the amalgamation between Superbike and Moto GP into one single championship (that Francis Batta was aluding to in the press this week), could in fact come to pass.
