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Things may not be as bad as they seem, though. For a new team could enter the 2010 MotoGP championship, in the shape of former World Superbike team FB Corse. Today, the team announced that they were aiming to enter the series next season, with a bike built and designed by the Italian team themselves. The bike is an in-line three-cylinder four stroke, designed by Mauro Forghieri of the Oral Engineering Group, an engineer with a history in Ferrari's Formula One program, as well as having designed engines for Bugatti and Lamborghini. According to the published specifications, the engine will produce over 150 kW, or between 200 and 210 horsepower, a number which seems to be around 10% below what the current crop of bikes on the grid are producing. According to GPOne.com, this was the three-cylinder engine that BMW was building its MotoGP project around, before the German company switched tacks and aimed at racing in World Superbikes instead.
The bike has a couple of interesting innovations, one of which has actually caused the team a serious problem. The bike uses a hydraulically-actived semi-automatic six speed gearbox, but hydraulically controlled clutches were banned at a meeting of the Grand Prix Commission ealier this year. As a consequence, a shakedown test planned for the Valencia Grand Prix has had to be postponed while a solution is being sought. Dorna CEO is very keen to see more bikes on the grid, so no doubt negotiations are underway to make sure the bike could be made legal somehow.
No riders have yet been named by the team, but as the bike is an all-Italian project - the FB Corse team ran in the Italian Superbike championship with Giovanni Bussei (probably the coolest motorcycle racer on the planet) and Mauro Sanchini, and were involved in the DFX Corse World Superbike effort this year - it is very likely that the team will want an Italian rider. This would put Alex de Angelis in the hot seat for the ride, if the Italian is left without a bike with one of the existing teams in 2010. However, Roger Burnett, James Toseland's manager, told the BBC that he was also looking at a "new MotoGP project" without mentioning any names, and this could potentially be the project he was referring to.
http://www.motogpmatters.com/news/2009/09/08/brand_new_fb_corse_bike_to_join_motogp_g.html
Things may not be as bad as they seem, though. For a new team could enter the 2010 MotoGP championship, in the shape of former World Superbike team FB Corse. Today, the team announced that they were aiming to enter the series next season, with a bike built and designed by the Italian team themselves. The bike is an in-line three-cylinder four stroke, designed by Mauro Forghieri of the Oral Engineering Group, an engineer with a history in Ferrari's Formula One program, as well as having designed engines for Bugatti and Lamborghini. According to the published specifications, the engine will produce over 150 kW, or between 200 and 210 horsepower, a number which seems to be around 10% below what the current crop of bikes on the grid are producing. According to GPOne.com, this was the three-cylinder engine that BMW was building its MotoGP project around, before the German company switched tacks and aimed at racing in World Superbikes instead.
The bike has a couple of interesting innovations, one of which has actually caused the team a serious problem. The bike uses a hydraulically-actived semi-automatic six speed gearbox, but hydraulically controlled clutches were banned at a meeting of the Grand Prix Commission ealier this year. As a consequence, a shakedown test planned for the Valencia Grand Prix has had to be postponed while a solution is being sought. Dorna CEO is very keen to see more bikes on the grid, so no doubt negotiations are underway to make sure the bike could be made legal somehow.
No riders have yet been named by the team, but as the bike is an all-Italian project - the FB Corse team ran in the Italian Superbike championship with Giovanni Bussei (probably the coolest motorcycle racer on the planet) and Mauro Sanchini, and were involved in the DFX Corse World Superbike effort this year - it is very likely that the team will want an Italian rider. This would put Alex de Angelis in the hot seat for the ride, if the Italian is left without a bike with one of the existing teams in 2010. However, Roger Burnett, James Toseland's manager, told the BBC that he was also looking at a "new MotoGP project" without mentioning any names, and this could potentially be the project he was referring to.
http://www.motogpmatters.com/news/2009/09/08/brand_new_fb_corse_bike_to_join_motogp_g.html
