I'm not a fan of these rule changes, but heck, they're a million times better than F1 changes have been. I'm saddened knowing that the remaining years i have to watch F1 is not limited by my age, but limited by the number of years until rule changes make it unappealing.
I was hoping for a big simplification on aerodynamics, but the narrower box will have to do. Also, reducing bore might make inline 4 more competitive againgst the V4s!
Personally, i kinda wanna see regulations that also make other types of engines more competitive, so manufacturers can do crazy stuff (like the return of 2 strokes), but that seems very, very, veeeeery far away
Dorna said they wanted more road bike "association" but 850cc is not a engine volume that really have been widely used on road bikes or in racing before, why not just go down to 750cc... big mistake just get it down to 750cc as it is an engine volume in motorcycle racing with lots of racing pedigree.
They've used 800cc before, it's the safest plan there's. Not much development needed and with the upcoming regulations for street bike emissions standard favoring the 800-900cc, 850cc does makes sense
Yeah, they say the risk of crashes is due to the high speed but that's not true. The majority of crashes happen in the cornering phase because they can't feel the front tyre slipping
@@KepleroGT this had happened in the 800cc era; reduced power allowed the riders to have higher cornering speed. The faster bikes make their time on acceleration and braking phase, while the slower bikes have higher lowest cornering speed (I remembered when the 125cc bikes on average have up to 10 kph higher corner apex speed than the 500cc bikes). The aero bits and pieces also don't help in reducing cornering speed; 2016 was one time when winglets were banned, then Yamaha found a loophole to hide their winglets inside the body, and finally Ducati went absolute bonkers with their own aero development until MotoGP kinda gave up to make any significant restrictions. I can only hope that no rider's life or career be lost by this kind of complacency.
Thanks for a MotoGP video and for the regulations change i am not a fan bcs od the smaller engines and when i heard i thought what about Wsbk the will have very close lap times but i found out they will also change the rules heh
The GPS data availability is definitely a good move. Reasonable reduction of the aero package is also probably a good thing, except for rear homologation thing. Reduction of the fuel tank is OK, I guess. But downsizing the engines is entirely wrong decision! The last time the MotoGP did that they failed, and had to revert back. And this was back in the days of the peak popularity of the liter sportbikes. Nowadays one liter engine capacity considered to be too small by the byers - they prefer bigger engines. That's why Ducati and Aprilia are selling 1100 cc sportbikes, and these are considered the best sportbikes currently on the market. KTM just upsized their top naked bike to 1349 cc from 1301 cc. Even adventure bikes has 1300 cc now. The entire motorcycle market are shifting towards bigger and more powerful engines - because that's what buyers of the high-end bikes wants. Meanwhile, MotoGP decided to go exactly the opposite way. That's clearly a wrong decision. FIA wanted to make MotoGP bikes less powerful and slower? They could have easily achive this by decreasing max availible rpm (which would decrease fuel consumption as well), and making the bikes to switch from the RON 102 race fuel to the standard RON 100 or RON 98 pump gas. They could have also decrease max bore, and ban pneumatic valves. As you can see, there is a lot of ways of decreasing power without downsizing engines displacement. But FIA chose none of them. What a shame! And by the way, trying to make racing slower is a wrong move in the first place. Going against natural technical progress is always wrong.
If they really think the aero is spoiling the head to head racing, like it does in F1, it just proves that these dim bulbs have never watched a MotoGP race.
Dont thin making the engines smaller was a great idea.....keep the 1000cc but restrict fuel flow....as now WSBK have a bigger engine and will be viewed by casual viewers as the pinacle as they are more road relevant
If by casual you mean murricans who can only understand "more is more better", than who cares? No one thinks Indy or Nascar is better than F1 because the engine is smaller.
@@AugustoRallo Not my point, but you have to look at casual viewers, people look at an F1 car and say yeah that is mad fast must be a top category. They look at Hypercars and say the same. But WSBK has alien looking bikes now and I don't think we are far from having more MotoGP tech trickle down to road bikes to make the wsbk bikes look more alien, and then we have the dilemma of: "both look alien but one has a bigger engine....must be faster i guess." Don't get me wrong I don't care about what is what as long as we get good racing but liberty now owns motogp and wsbk and therefore will take the casual fans and the spectacle bullshit they do in f1 into those other categories
Gobsmacked! How many fatalities have we had in MotoGP…..Dare I say it More riders @TT are killed. Do they close the race or restrict bikes no… BTW this racing goes over the entire world how is it 2 of the DORNA board has 2 family members and several other family members involved. This decision can’t be made by people with vested interest in broadcasting rights internationally, international representation must come from several countries not tied into 4 members reigning from Spain and Italy. FYI DORNA recently sold to Liberty Media (F1) for ~18 billion dollars….. Dorna has made their money they don’t care about MotoGP… Simply disgusting
Since they are prototypes there should be little to no restrictions to bikes development so that to see different technical solutions to the same problem like those we were used to see at the older times, the riders will develop new techniques as they did so far, otherwise all bikes in the end will tend to be the same
@@jayaneyon9316 before that, please remember that current GP bikes is lighter than any 250cc street legal bike. Making them even more lighter is a recipe for the previous 800cc disaster
@@jayaneyon9316 large amount of injuries, rider simply cannot control the bike in corners because how fast the cornering speed is, top end is empty. Many people prefer the 990s and 1000s
I am quite excited for the changes. I feel like the racing we got end of last season and this season so far has been really good. And the new regulations are close enough to the current state of the bikes that I think it will change what it wants to but nothing more. Which is good.
I’ve never watched much of anything outside of F1, but I always hate hearing restrictions being put in place. Imagine if the regulators said F1 cars were too fast, then today F1 would be as slow as gt3 cars!
@@DavidAguileraMoncusiThose rules were designed specifically to screw over Mercedes so that the championship battle would be closer similar to how the rules were changed in 2005 to screw over Ferrari to put a stop to the Schumi dominance that was starting to drive away fans and potential newcomers.
Just reduce engines per season from seven to two. (and you can't rebuild them, making it basically one engine power bike and a spare in case something goes wrong) That'll slow those bikes down for sure. And the homologation bones will be closer to the race bikes, which is what everybody really wants out of the sport anyway.
@@literallyhuman5990 too fast is too fast, either they need new tracks or they neuter the gp bikes where they're no longer interesting to watch because they don't even remotely resemble the floor model.
@@stug77 now which track that has enough run off for them? Doubt any major track is considered safe for motorcycle races. And if you want to neuter them enough, going back to 500cc two strokes is the same as going back to 800cc or increasing the engine to 1200cc with a shorter wheelbase. Reducing the engine count is already a stupid idea, even MXGP doesn't do that. Even ARRC doesn't want to do that. If you want to neuter the engine, MotoGP will become glorified moto2 and it's disgusting
@@literallyhuman5990 We're on the same page. By new track I mean brand new built specifically for the higher speeds. And yes neutering the engines (by any means, displacement or durability) will make it glorified moto 2 and it would be disgusting. F1 is having the exact same problem.
