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steveyb
13th March 2011, 20:36
Y'all heard how many Moto2 engines Geo Technologies made last year?

450!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mental Trousers
13th March 2011, 20:42
One of those in an FTR/Moriwaki/Suter frame would be almost unfair in the F3 field.

EDIT Misread that haha :facepalm:
lostinflyz
13th March 2011, 20:54
yea probably. a full Supersport spec would be much better though.

geotec engines lasted what 4 or 6 races i think at around 120-125hp.
SS figures are harder to come by but most reckon its in the 140-150hp region. ouchy

given there were around 40 full time entries all year thats just over 10 engines an entry, not too bad.
steveyb
13th March 2011, 21:12
Short refresh menu at 1500km (piston, connecting rod, valves etc).
Full rebuild menu "Much longer menu, more components including gearbox" at 3000km.

Still though, 450 engines. It's a lot of race engines. But 0 failures in 2010 is a good record.

By the way, if it interests anyone else besides us 125GP trainspotters, I watched the Mahindra Racing videos and did some searching on their sponsors listed on the boards. It seems that the Mahindra project is the former Loncin project which was just a rebranding of another project (Lambretta?? not sure) and prior to that it was the Malaguti. It is really a sponsorship vehicle for the Engines Engineering guys to go racing with their disc valve Honda engine in a tweeked Honda frame (with special swingarm). I did see some of these swingarms on RS125s when I was in Italy. Look a bit like Aprilia swingarms.
Brian d marge
13th March 2011, 23:48
Not bad from an Engine that originally chucked out around 85bhp

Though with most things , the more u tune em the shorter the life span

I want to seethe new 125 class ( what do you call it now? 125, 250 moto1 ??)

Stephen
steveyb
14th March 2011, 07:24
Next year. It is Moto3.
wharfy
16th March 2011, 08:32
Next year. It is Moto3.

So when does motoGP become Moto1 ?
onearmedbandit
16th March 2011, 09:06
So when does motoGP become Moto1 ?

It never will, as it's the Grand Prix.
Shaun
16th March 2011, 17:45
how long has Honda got there hands on the motor for the class?
Brian d marge
11th April 2011, 01:23
Moto 2 is looking real interesting towards the end of the year ,,,,,,

236414

ohh yeah......

Stephen
denill
11th April 2011, 08:30
Background

http://motomatters.com/news/2010/02/24/honda_moto2_engines_to_produce_125_bhp.html
denill
11th April 2011, 08:34
<a href=http://motomatters.com/news/2010/06/26/125s_to_be_replaced_by_four_strokes_from.html>And the 125 class goes..............</A>