Suzuki returns to MotoGP

At the end of November 2011 Suzuki Motor Corporation has officially announced the suspension of activity in global motorsport, particularly in the world championship MotoGP. Until recently, the plant was considering returning to MotoGP in 2014, but yesterday it became clear that Suzuki motorcycles will be on the grid "royal class" only in 2015.

Yesterday, in Catalonia, which is currently undergoing official tests MotoGP, the factory racing project Suzuki Motor Corporation has publicly confirmed his plans to return to the FIM Road Racing Grand Prix MotoGP in 2015. After two years of "freezing" of the project since the beginning of 2012, the corporation Suzuki again bringing together a test team to side-by-side with the regular participants of the championship conduct several tests of its prototype.

Only after extensive testing in Japan and beyond, the end of the development process and improve the prototype, Suzuki Motor Corporation will participate in the race MotoGP. The new test team that will work in Europe in 2013, will join the project manager Davide Brivio and pilot developer Randy De Puniet. The prototype Suzuki HRH1 is equipped with a 4-cylinder in-line engine capacity of 1000 cc.

On the first day of official testing at Circuit de Catalunya racetrack test team has achieved sensational results: Randy De Puniet, piloting the latest prototype of the 1000-cc Suzuki, the leader gave tests, the Grand Prix winner of the Lorenzo de Catalunya just 0.7 seconds.

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Honda showed a new prototype

Yesterday at private test in Spanish Aragon, Honda introduced the new 2014 RC213V prototype granpriyny.

RC213V prototype of the next-generation introduced himself Honda Racing technical director Takeo Yokoyama. "This is a prototype in 2014, is the new motorcycles, both in terms of the chassis, and in terms of the engine. We want to begin testing motorcycles now to bring development to the final Test at Valencia in November - said the Japanese engineer. - If Pedrosa and Marquez will feel that we have made a really big step forward compared to the current RC213V, then HRC will try to provide them with these bikes before the end of the season, as we did last year. "

It is interesting to note that it was based on a prototype Honda RC213V 2014 will create a bike that will get the team, decided to abandon the CRT-machines in favor of "commercially available sport prototype» (Factory Made GP Racer - Production Racer). On the "Docked" version of Honda RC213V for private teams still know too many people: suspension, brakes and exhaust system, similar to the flagship bikes factory teams, but increased by 3-liter fuel tank, the engine without the air system valves and control electronics with software from Dorna Sports , not from Honda Racing Corporation. As for the price, the private teams factory Honda prototype will cost about 1.2 million euros. While the factory machines Repsol Honda, according to some estimates, there are about 2.1 million euros. Today on the track MotorLand Aragón pilots factory Honda team Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa and Stefan Bradl representing LCR Honda, will start testing the new machines, which was postponed by one day due to the incessant rains.

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