Moto2 has finally arrived, the category that replaces 250 cc
Moto2 has finally arrived, the category that replaces 250 cc

Video: Moto2 has finally arrived, the category that replaces 250 cc

Video: Moto2 has finally arrived, the category that replaces 250 cc
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The relay to the 250 category cc has finally arrived. Welcome moto2! From my personal point of view it was a positive and necessary evolution: although I have a nostalgic fondness for two-stroke machines (their sound, their smell, their peculiar driving, …) the market has evolved for a long time towards four strokes and it was an anachronism that the motorcycling world championships were still anchored in the past. The chosen formula seems to me pragmatic and possibilist: with the cost of developing four-stroke engines, it was utopian to think of complete prototypes, so maintaining the character of the prototype in the chassis and the cycle part was a reasonable option. Let's hope that dreamers capable of making good designs will appear. On days like today I miss my admired Antonio Cobas, who would surely have done magic with a regulation like this one.

After a year of speculation, sounding balloons, trial and error, and hundreds of meetings, the Moto2 regulations, the new category that will replace 250cc in the World Championship as of the 2011 season. This means that we will have two years of transition, 2009 and 2010, in which it will be necessary to see how the interest of pilots, sponsors remains alive and public in the still 250 cc two-stroke category. The transition time seems to me very long.

Focusing on the Regulation, in general it can be said that it confirms the rumors and scores of recent months: standard 600cc four-stroke engines (in a configuration of 2, 3 or 4 cylinders … which will actually be 4 for practically all participants) in a prototype chassis, quite free of limitations for the moment.

To guarantee and make visible the prototype aspect of the category, it also prohibits the use of production parts in the swingarm, fuel tank, seat, cooling system, … On the other hand, traction control systems, complex or expensive control units are limited data acquisition systems. There will be a single package supplied by the organization, and which will have a maximum cost for teams of 650 euros.

Along the same lines of creating a accessible category, it is already announced that a list of "technological" materials prohibited in the championship will be published in the future. In other words, iron and aluminum alloys will be the material used in general. Along the same lines of limiting costs, riders can only have one motorcycle, although with two complete engines (thank goodness!).

One of the most curious aspects of the technical regulation is that in order to discourage work on engines, any engine used is required to be available to any rival competitor for a fixed price of 20,000 euros one hour after the race. The objective of this peculiar rule is to prevent excessive resources from being invested in the development of standard engines: no one is going to do it if they know that for a small price it will be immediately available to rivals. A radical rule that we are going to analyze further and look for a precedent in the newspaper library to reflect on it.

In the final link we leave you direct access to the complete regulations for those who want to dive a little more in the technical aspects.

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