2009 MotoGP line-up

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While we have yet to hear an official announcement from Kawasaki about its 2009 season in MotoGP, and there looks to be a fair bit of dust still left to settle; as of now, this is what the 2009 MotoGP grid will look like without Marco Melandri and John Hopkings:

Repsol Honda - Dani Pedrosa
Repsol Honda - Andrea Dovizioso

San Carlo Honda Gresini - Toni Elias
San Carlo Honda Gresini - Alex de Angelis

LCR Honda - Randy de Puniet

Scot Racing Honda - Yuki Takahashani

Rizla Suzuki - Loris Cappirossi
Rizla Suzuki - Christopher Vermulean

Ducati Marlboro - Casey Stoner
Ducati Marlboro - Nicky Hayden

Alice Ducati - Mika Kallio
Alice Ducati - Niccolo Canepa

Onde 2000 Ducati*- Sete Gibernau

Fiat Yamaha - Valentino Rossi
Fiat Yamaha - Jorge Lorenzo

Tech 3 Yamaha - Colin Edwards
Tech 3 Yamaha - James Toseland



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Boring

Wheres the WSBK listing more like.

right here

http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/racing/wsb-team-and-rider-line-up/

-:banana

Cheers Crash

just read that kawasaki will be taken to court if they try to pull out of the 2009 season. Good, its gonna be a very boring season with only 6 honda's, 5 ducati's, 2 suzuki's and 4 yamaha's.

Should have left it as 2 stroke 500's, and have loads of different manufacturers:thumbup

if they were still using 500cc 2-strokes, MotoGP would be dead right now. There is zero ROI on developing a bike that has no market applicability.

-:banana

crashtd said:

if they were still using 500cc 2-strokes, MotoGP would be dead right now. There is zero ROI on developing a bike that has no market applicability.

-:banana

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motogp was always about what could be achieved on a elite motorcycle, and as time went on ,these advances have filtered down to the mainstream bikes.

It was always the pinaccle of bike sport, same as f1 is to the car world.

Wsb is where the road looking bikes can go racing and its this that has market applicability. same as touring cars in the car world.

The 2 seem to have merged these days since tobacco advertising was removed.

The recession is just going to make it worse for both series...

yeah, but its hard to spend $50M where almost none of the engine development can go into something you can sell later. That's why MOTO2 is getting introduced too.

-:banana

but moto2 is just a pumped up equilavent of the supercup series.

Why not really mix it up and allow 400 4 strokes and 250 2 strokes competing in the same race.

From the motogp site-

"he four-stroke competition set to replace the existing 250cc series in 2011 has been detailed by an official announcement from the FIM, setting out regulations for the new 600cc World Championship. Taking the name of Moto2, the new category is intended to be a prestigious yet cost-effective accompaniment to the MotoGP premier class.

Of the rules confirmed by the FIM this week, the shape of the class will be formed by those pertaining to the bikes´ engine. The 600cc, four-stroke motors will have a maximum speed of 16,000 rpm (for 4-cylinder engines, with 15,000 and 15,500 rpm limits for 2 and 3-cylinder engines, respectively). Adherence to these boundaries will be monitored and controlled by an electronic system, supplied by the FIM´s designated organiser.

Electronic systems themselves will be more limited than those currently permitted in 250cc, which has seen select factories bringing in traction control in recent years. Moto2 rules will allow for data loggers, ECU and timing transponders supplied by the organiser, with a maximum total cost of the ECU´s components set at 650 euros (75,000 yen). No other electronic control, nor datalogging systems, will be present on the bikes.

Moto2 will use standard options in terms of engine and electronics, but will continue the 250cc series´ pursuit of developmental excellence with the running of a prototype chassis -free from limitation. No production bike parts will be permitted for the frame, swing arm, fuel tank, seat and cowling, meaning that these aspects of the machine will also be left to the manufacturer and designers´ discretion.

Carbon brakes like those used in MotoGP will not be a part of the 600cc class, part of the cost-reducing philosophy of the new series. A list from the FIM, detailing outlawed `non-conventional´ materials and manufacturing methods, will be issued in the future, although in most cases a standard of iron-based and aluminium alloys has been put in place.

Moto2 machines will be limited to one per rider, with a maximum of two complete engines. Those engines used in any given race will be available for purchase by rival competitors, for the fixed price of €20,000, in the hour following a Moto2 Grand Prix."

That does not sound like a search for the ultimate bike to me, they should have made the manufacturers bring down the emissions of the 2 strokes, not outlaw them totally.

how long now till the 125 gp bikes are all 4 strokes and all the lilttle spanish and italian manufacturers have to pull out. Sounds familar to what happened to the 500 change over, de-ja-vue, perhaps?

Then we'll have complete boredom watching motogp.

Not sure i'm even gonna bother setting the sky box to record this years racing let alone get up at silly o hour to watch it....