MotoGP: Nicky Hayden “We need more power”
The American former Ducati reiterated that the new Honda Open lacks chivalry
Nicky Hayden, former Honda and Ducati Factory rider, has been riding the Honda RCV1000R Open since this year. A bike that on paper had all the requirements to perform well, but which after two races demonstrated all its limits, especially in terms of power.
Compared to the RC213V Factory, the Open does not have the seamless gearbox and pneumatic valves, but last year during tests it was "passed off" as being slightly slower than the official bikes. Over the weekend in Austin, the top speed recorded by Hayden was 319.6, compared to the 339.6 recorded by Marc Marquez and the 325.7 of Aleix Espargarò, who rides a Yamaha Open.
To be honest, it must be said that the other Opens do not fully respect the nature for which they were created. For example, the aforementioned Yamaha Open by Aleix Espargarò has a Yamaha engine, frame and swingarm, while initially the frame and swingarm had to be built by FTR. The American responded to MCN regarding a possible update to his bike.
“There are a lot of rumors, but we haven't seen anything and there's been no communication about when it will happen. As for power, this can come from different areas, but two or three horsepower won't make a big difference. We need a real step forward to be competitive. In numerical terms I don't know how much more power is needed, but above all in acceleration, as mentioned, two or three horsepower will not make the difference. It's not so much the top speed that's the problem, but getting out of slow corners quickly when accelerating.”
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for work I have often had to deal with engine engineers and since my first debut in the world of competitions I have always felt that to gain a few tenths per engine lap they would have to be so dirty that even a child who is there would notice it during a post-race check. 'something's wrong...'
in racing the driver's great ally is the chassis, a properly done corner exit can give even 15/20 km per hour of top speed, something that no engine with the same output would be able to give...
Either they put pneumatic valves on this engine too or best regards, I don't think they will be able to make a traditional engine that achieves the same performance, without using pneumatic valves and still maintaining lower costs, or remaining within that number of engines per season .
Why didn't the kangaroo say any of this when he tried it? Either Hayden is no longer able to go fast or Stoner doesn't understand a thing about set-up..
It's because the legendary guy doesn't understand a thing about setting up the bike if the little monkey had gotten on instead he would have given all the right indications to make a super bike and Hayden would certainly have won the world championship this year don't worry about this .
but it is obvious that I have already written on another occasion that Honda certainly did not provide the customer teams with a motorbike performing to the point of bothering the official one and it complied by rounding down and certainly not rounding up to the open rules. The world championship, honor and money are involved and above all the title sponsor Repsol who certainly would not have liked to give money to an official team that had its shoes made by the customer team.
the kangaroo did his job, he was paid to make the motorbike go around the track, not to declare to the world whether it was a good motorbike or a rubbish…..
If you don't understand this I can imagine the rest