Suzuki is one of two teams (Aprilia being the other) nevertheless getting concessions compared to its MotoGP competitors for the 2016 series. The concessions are a bit various this year, however, with all teams employing the exact same tires and the exact same fuel capacity. As an alternative, Suzuki and Aprilia get 9 engines per rider (versus 7 per rider for the other teams), unlimited engine development (other teams are frozen as of the initial race), and unlimited testing, which includes with factory riders (other teams get a total of 5 days).
At the current Sepang test, Suzuki began testing a number of considerable alterations for 2016, such as a new engine, chassis and seamless gear box. It seems the new engine is significantly far more most likely to offer competitive energy this year and, collectively with the seamless gear box, a lot far better acceleration off the corners. The jury is still out on the 2016 chassis, even so, and Suzuki (like a lot of the other teams) nonetheless has a lot of function left dialing in the electronics. Pre-season testing resumes at Phillip Island on February 17. Here is what the Suzuki team had to say following the Sepang test, followed by a quick video:
Team Suzuki Press Office – February 3. The third and final day of the Sepang test saw rain complicating the program with early morning showers and another downpour soon after lunch splitting the day into two intensive sessions for Team SUZUKI ECSTAR.
Nevertheless, Aleix Espargarò and Maverick Viñales could lap to almost total the remaining component of their plan, therefore collecting helpful data for the engineers and they each now have a full situation of the offered evolutions of the GSX-RR in terms of chassis and engine, with each other with some improvements in the electronics.
The riders will now fly to Japan to meet the R&D group in Hamamatsu and to full some additional tests in the wind tunnel that will assist designers and engineers to further finalise the aerodynamics. The program will then take the complete Group to Phillip Island, Australia, for the second session of IRTA tests where the Group SUZUKI ECSTAR crew will be joined by Test Team rider Takuya Tsuda, who will also use the new sort of seamless gearbox.
Satoru Terada – MotoGP Project Leader:
“Today we completed the first test in the New Year for the upcoming season and in reality these 3 days were really helpful to verify our progress. We have introduced many new things from the Factory, such as new engine specs, new electronics improvements and a new chassis, with good outcome. It appears that the new engine specs and the seamless gave constructive feelings to the riders and also a very good improvement to the lap overall performance getting a a lot more-efficient acceleration. We nonetheless have to operate on the electronics and chassis, because we have some trouble with rear grip. Right here we also introduced a new chassis, but apparently we need some more testing and improvement to make it much more successful. The test in Phillip Island will help us in this way.”
Maverick Viñales:
Very best lap: 2m01.244s.
“After right now I should say that I am really confident. The initial two days didn’t leave me feeling so straightforward, but these days, specially after the last two hours of testing, I would say I feel great. Right now I could be performing each on a single lap and on the pace, though we have rolled only with hard tyres. We also had some troubles but it is standard considering that we are at the very first test with so a lot of new products. We did some improvements with the electronics but we still have room for improvement, if we will uncover a excellent way to interpret it we will be a lot closer to the leading. There are some riders who really produced the difference right here, but also some other Factory riders who are not so far from us. I had truly great impressions from the seamless but also importantly I feel content with the new engine. We still require to much better finalise the electronics to exploit its full energy, but currently at this point the energy delivery and all round power makes me really pleased. Now we go to Australia, Phillip Island is a track I like a lot and will be in summer season, so there will be a lot of grip. The situations will be really hot and we were pretty competitive there final year, it will be a very good likelihood to test a lot more issues even though we know that the areas exactly where we have to enhance on are those like in Malaysia, with less grip.”
Aleix Espargaro:
Greatest lap: 2m01.623s.
“Today it’s been a hard day due to the fact of the rain but I also had some positives. This morning we utilized the new engine with 2015 chassis and I had very constructive feelings. We had been quite competitive and close to the prime. In the afternoon we switched to the 2016 chassis but I couldn’t discover a proper feeling, we want much more testing to discover a much more effective configuration. At the beginning I would have liked to have continued with last year’s, but we need to keep in mind that we are right here for testing all news factors and to send feedback to Japan so that they can additional improve. The new chassis is still young, it is regular it has some troubles and we want some much more time to finalise it. I feel we have made constructive improvements with the seamless and the electronics, as properly as with the tyres. The self-assurance with the front-end has enhanced a lot and also the corner speed is quicker. This was only the first true test, it’s correct that we have had some troubles, but it is element of the game and this is precisely the purpose why we are right here. Tomorrow we fly to Japan to do some testing in the wind tunnel, they will possibly aid me to discover better protection from the air considering that I am a quite tall rider and then we go to Australia exactly where we will still have a lot of issues to try. The Factory is operating actually difficult to provide us improvements and updates, we hold functioning on fairly a lot all elements chassis, engine, gearbox, electronics and there is significantly room for improvement, but I really feel entirely optimistic about this.”
MALAYSIAN TEST – Day three Classification:
1. LORENZO, Jorge – Movistar Yamaha MotoGP – 1:59.580
two. ROSSI, Valentino – Movistar Yamaha MotoGP – 2:00.556 – +.976
three. MARQUEZ, Marc – Repsol Honda Team – two:00.883 – +1.303
4. CRUTCHLOW, Cal – LCR Honda – 2:00.992 – +1.412
five. STONER, Casey – Ducati Team – 2:01.070 – +1.490
6. PEDROSA, Dani – Repsol Honda Team – 2:01.161 – +1.581
7. PETRUCCI, Danilo – Octo Pramac Yakhnich – two:01.217 – +1.637
eight. IANNONE, Andrea – Ducati Group two:01.223 – 1.643 – +.006
9. REDDING, Scott – Octo Pramac Yakhnich – two:01.229 – +1.649
ten. VIÑALES, Maverick – Team SUZUKI ECSTAR – two:01.244 – +1.664
11. BARBERA, Hector Avintia Racing – 2:01.434 – 1.854 – +.190
12. ESPARGARO, Aleix – Team SUZUKI ECSTAR – 2:01.623 – +two.043
Nonetheless Receiving Concessions in 2016, Suzuki MotoGP Work Poised to be A lot more Competitive (News)
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