| | | | Moto GP 125cc et 250cc : A four strokes future ? |  Written: 12/04/2007 : 14:10. Read 4139 times (10/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | Here is in information which will scare every lovers of the holed cylinder.
Honda Corp, again them, made the wish, the project, to see 125cc and 250cc categories race with four strokes engines.
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Honda did not believe any more in two strokes engines and the bad news for 125cc teams is that Honda will not give any evolution kit to them, until the end of the season.
Sad new for those who race with Honda (Alberto Puig for exemple), so we can say with that the world title is for Aprilia and one of their rider.
For the 250cc class, Dovizioso can already be resigned, Honda will not support him any more...
For the future of both categories Honda want to do what everybody whispering, race with tha same rules that are in MX1 and MX2. So, 125cc two strokes against 250cc four strokes and 250cc two strokes against 450cc four strokes.
Honda always loves the four strokes engine, from the begining of its History, it was even a philisophy for Soichiro Honda, founder of the empire.
But this proposition has a major disadvantage, the cost!
For sure, money is not a problem for Honda (they can even race in Formula 1 without sponsors!!), but to race with a four strokes cost a lot of money and it could be the end of the small teams...
Maybe not, answer Honda, who has alredy prepare the backup with Moriwaki.
The idea is to fit a 250cc engine from off road bike or supermoto, in a 125cc châssis.
Moriwaki factory is very close to Honda and the prototype is already ridable, it names GPMR250X and it is the current RS125 RW châssis with a 250cc CRF engine.
The first tests went fine and the project is to make it available to be fitted with other engines like Kawasaki, Suzuki Yamaha...
Maybe those bikes will be the future 125 and 250's, but it is an expensive future, a glorious future for Honda but dark for small teams...
A future again summerized to a money story, far away from the love of this sport.
Seeing that the two strokes have not any comercial value, it does not make any sens to race with that kind of engines...
The motorcycle Grand Prix is a championship where the point is to race with prototypes, am I wrong? So if Honda wants to race in a sport production championship, there is the World Superbike or Supersport championship.
I probably go a little ...
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