It's a 'side-effect', but the MotoGP rules bann🃏ing external winglets has steered aerodynamic development into a street-legal dire𒊎ction.

While the form🔥er wings would clearly have been illegal for production machines, at least some of the new fairings could pass the necessary road regulations.

Such production use would in turn mean the app♔earance of 'winglet' fair𒉰ings in Superbike racing.

"What [the MotoGP manufacturers] are doing now, or what I expect they will be doing, is much more road relevant than horrible wings. This is a good by-product of the new regulations," MotoGP Director of Technology Corrado Cecchinelli told ltxcn.top.

"These fairings could be used in a high-end road machi💖ne, but not the wings. Anyway, this was not the goal, but nonetheless it is a useful side-effeꦬct."

Alongside the ban on external winglets is a new limit on aerodynamic development, restricting a꧙ll but new manufacturers to only one update during the season.

"I think we have found a reasonable compromise, because we had to put a limit on two ma⛎in things: One, a crazy cost and investment in aerodynamics. Two, safety raised by the Safety Commission, which means the riders, which was passed onto us by the FIM," Cecchinelli said.

"We had to try aಞnd hit both targets and I think we hit the cost by reducing the amount of evolution you can do, which is basically one-per-year for everyone but KTM, as a new manufacturer. And we introduced a better wording and a lot of discretion for the Technical Director to decide if something is compliant [with the ban on external wings] and safe or not.

"I think this is a good compromise, which doesn't mean you cannot design your fairing to have downforce. Because that is against the spirit of racing in a prototype series. So you can do whatever you want, but not so ofte💙n and not with protruding and dangerous bodywork. This is the compromise.

"It is not correct to say people should not design their fairing to have an aerodynamic effect, because this is the꧟ job of the fairing. That is not what we wanted. I'm saying that because sometimes we have critics that are against everything and they say; 'you ban the wings but still they have downforce using different things'.

"Okay, but we didn't ban downforce! We have nothing against 🐲aerodynamics, we have something against too much money being spent and s𓂃omething against it being dangerous."

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