Arghhh, new rules for MotoGP

[Charlesbusa]

FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix

- Changes to the 2009 Regulations -

The Grand Prix Commission, composed of Messrs. Carmelo Ezpeleta (Dorna, Chairman), Claude Danis (FIM), Hervé Poncharal (IRTA) and Takanao Tsubouchi (MSMA), in the presence of Messrs Vito Ippolito (FIM President), Ignacio Verneda (FIM Sport Director), Javier Alonso (Dorna) and M. Paul Butler (Secretary of the meeting), in a meeting held on March 28 in Jerez de la Frontera (Spain), decided to introduce the following amendments to the Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix Regulations.
MotoGP Class

For immediate application

1. Engine restriction from Czech Republic Grand Prix included

a) A rider can use a maximum of 5 engines until the end of the Championship.

b) New engines have to be sealed before use (practices, warm up, race).

c) A new engine will be deemed to have been used when the motorcycle exits the pit lane.

d) All used engines will have the exhaust ports additionally sealed at the end of each event.

e) A sealed engine can be reused at any time.

f) The penalty for using an unauthorized engine will be a deduction of 10 points from the total point of the Championship ranking of the rider concerned.


2. 2009-2010 tests
8 days in total. Venues and days will be announced.

3. Ceramic composite materials shall not be permitted for brake discs and pads.

4. Any pressurized hydraulic powered system is not allowed. Also engine lubricating oil cannot be used for any other purpose.

5. Electronic controlled suspension shall not be permitted.

6. EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) shall not be permitted.

7. Testing with non-contracted riders is allowed at any track, at any time, but it is subject to the following limitations:

a) Only tyres coming from the Tyre Supplier are allowed, and not more than 240pcs. per Manufacturer can be used from the 1st of January to the 31st of December including after-race tests.

b) After the MotoGP season has started, testing before a race included in the MotoGP Championship is limited to 2 tracks, and no later than 14 days prior to the race.

8. Testing for contracted riders:

a) Contracted riders are allowed to 2 after-race tests. The tyres used by the contracted riders will not be counted.

b) The winter test ban will be extended up to January 31st.


For 2010

1. Only one machine can be used during each MotoGP event.

2. A rider can use a maximum of 6 engines for the entire Championship.

3. A new event schedule will be announced.

4. Carbon composite front brake discs must be of one diameter only and two types of mass. The diameter will be 320mm only.

5. The maximum fuel injection pressure is 10 Bar.

6. MMC (Metal Matrix Composite) & FRM (Fiber Matrix Material) shall not be permitted.

7. Temperature sensor for the tyre will not be permitted.

8. From 2010 to 2012, the rim width shall be limited to 2 sizes for front and 1 size for rear for each manufacturer. Wheels diameter shall be limited to 16.5 inches only.

9. Variable exhaust system shall not be permitted.

10. Variable Valve Timing system and Variable Valve Lift system powered by electric and/or liquid, shall not be permitted.

11. Connecting rod shall not be a hollow structure but less than 2mm oil pass tunnel is permitted.

12. Twin clutch system (known as DSG) shall not be permitted.

13. Automatic transmission shall not be permitted. But manual transmission assisted by small force shall be permitted.

14. Consecutive Variable Transmission shall not be permitted.

15. Only DORNA can supply GPS unit just for entertainments such as TV broadcasting, which can’t connect to CPU unit by any kind of system.

16. Electric/electronic steering damper system shall not be permitted.

17. Minimum weight of motorcycle shall be the existing one + 2 kg. (ex: 150 kg for 4 cylinders).

18. Only 5 persons can work on the machine in the pits.

19. Riders who enter the Championship for the first time (Rookies) must be entered by a non factory Team.

Moto2 class

MSMA unanimously proposed “One Make Engine Regulationâ€￾. Manufacturers will be consulted to know if they are interested.


About FIM

FIM (Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme: Accueil), the world governing body for motorcycle sport, is an independent association formed by 98 National Federations throughout the world. It is recognized as the sole competent authority in motorcycle sport by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Among its 49 FIM World Championships its main events are MotoGP, Superbike, Endurance, Motocross, Supercross, Trial, Enduro and Speedway. FIM also deals with non-sporting matters such as leisure motorcycling, mobility, transport, road safety and public policy and the environment, FIM was the first International sporting Federation to enforce an Environmental Code in 1994.

How does the rookie rider can't go into a factory team save money!?

These are some scarey changes...

 

[mike1180]

Like most other things....WAY TOO MANY RULES.

 

[HillbillyTom]

Mostly useless changes. Simply do away with all the electronics except for data and telemetry recording, loose the pneumatic valve trains, restrict everybody to aluminum frames and swingarms.
Save enough $$ there to not need most, if any, of the other rulings.

MotoGP has always been a start for "trickle down" technology for street bikes, dual/triple compound tires and odd fire R1s for example. I just don't see how we can use CF frames and swingarms, GPS controled fuel mapping, and pneumatic valve 20,000rpm motors on street bikes.
In the meantime we've lost all new tire technology improvements, and new street bike improvements will, I fear, become a rarity, because there is nothing useful to "trickle down" anymore.

 

[bigoltool]

This is what I was blathering about yesterday. Carmelo is going to turn MotoGP into a joke just like the DMG has done to the AMA. How can you claim to have a World championship when you are hamstringing your best and brightest right out of the gate? The WSBK guys have to be sitting back and watching all this (Roger Edmundson are you listening?) and just laughing at the ineptitude. Amazing what a decent set of rules and a professionally run organization can accomplish.

 

[Lamb busa]

Where team is Spies supposed to run with when he gets the call-up? Does this mean for a year, he has to run with some also-ran team?

 

[HillbillyTom]

Where team is Spies supposed to run with when he gets the call-up? Does this mean for a year, he has to run with some also-ran team?

That's what it reads like. Crazy ain't it?
If Ben wins the WSBK championship this year, and in the face of the "new" rules in MotoGP, I would wonder if he would take it if called.
One scenario I could see working. Win the WSBK title this year, swap places with CEII next year, move on to the factory Yamaha team when Rossi retires after 2010 as team mate to Jorge Lorenzo.

 

[DaCol.]

Loop hole, What is a Used Engine ??? ? If it's just an engine that is used when leaving the pits, well, just make changes in the rebuild

 

[bigoltool]

Now that Toseland has banged himself up again...I wonder what Yamaha might think of calling up Spies to replace him for the first MotoGP race in Quatar. The Schedules don't conflict race-wise anyway. And Spies now knows the place pretty well!

 

[shawnski]

looks like major cost cutting!
who will remeber all these rule changes?

 

[Lamb busa]

Loop hole, What is a Used Engine ??? ? If it's just an engine that is used when leaving the pits, well, just make changes in the rebuild

It says that used engines must have the exhaust ports sealed. Would this prevent anyone from reshaping the interior of the heads?

 

[DaCol.]

It says that used engines must have the exhaust ports sealed. Would this prevent anyone from reshaping the interior of the heads?

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