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Keshav said:
The dynamic is seriously different now tho. With a control ECU and no Saturday night specials, Honda needs to evolve their approach for making a competitive machine. Like Ducati, they need some new blood in R&D.
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Their engine is out-dueling Mercedss in F1 at the moment. If they hand that over to Red Bull or whatever they should have plenty of engineering resources to throw at motogp starting next season. I think trying to run a bike designed to be tamed by much more sophisticated electronics is exactly the problem. Unlike Ducati they will design a new engine if necessary though, iirc they built a V twin just to win WSBK.
 
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michaelm said:
Their engine is out-dueling Mercedss in F1 at the moment. If they hand that over to Red Bull or whatever they should have plenty of engineering resources to throw at motogp starting next season. I think trying to run a bike designed to be tamed by much more sophisticated electronics is exactly the problem. Unlike Ducati they will design a new engine if necessary though, iirc they built a V twin just to win WSBK.
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Of course, needless to say, what happens with F1 doesn’t just trickle down to MotoGP. But yes - were they to team up with Red Bull I could see them back on the top of the game - with more than one rider regularly bringing in points to the constructor’s championship.
 
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Keshav said:
Of course, needless to say, what happens with F1 doesn’t just trickle down to MotoGP. But yes - were they to team up with Red Bull I could see them back on the top of the game - with more than one rider regularly bringing in points to the constructor’s championship.
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My point was that the engine being uncontrollable without the bespoke software is likely to be a large part of the problem, that they are good at building engines, and without commitments to F1 may well build a new engine once this is allowed; I think there is a freeze currently. I suspect all they can do at the moment is tweak the control ECU and may not be able to address the fundamental problem even with MM's input; Lorenzo got nowhere and Pedrosa if still there might not have been able to do much either.
 
michaelm said:
My point was that the engine being uncontrollable without the bespoke software is likely to be a large part of the problem, that they are good at building engines, and without commitments to F1 may well build a new engine once this is allowed; I think there is a freeze currently. I suspect all they can do at the moment is tweak the control ECU and may not be able to address the fundamental problem even with MM's input; Lorenzo got nowhere and Pedrosa if still there might not have been able to do much either.
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Engines are frozen.
Does anyone know how Yamaha managed to fix their engine issues from last year? I thought it was a design problem rather than something that could be fixed with the ECU.
 
p4p1 said:
Engines are frozen.
Does anyone know how Yamaha managed to fix their engine issues from last year? I thought it was a design problem rather than something that could be fixed with the ECU.
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That question has been asked by others but not answered to my knowledge.
 
michaelm said:
That question has been asked by others but not answered to my knowledge.
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I think we all know the answer but it's better for the series if they were allowed to fix a 'faulty' component. You'd hate to see someone lose a title because of something like that but it's no different to when Ducati were making an unrideable bike etc
 
Rossi has issued a statement that regardless of what Vinales does he will make an announcement in the next week about whether or not he’ll be back next year. He sounds pretty resigned to it.
 
Keshav said:
Rossi has issued a statement that regardless of what Vinales does he will make an announcement in the next week about whether or not he’ll be back next year. He sounds pretty resigned to it.
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Pretty sure I saw that Morbidelli to Yamaha was official now?
 
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