While gaps between MotoGP and WorldSBK machines hav🍌e always had a tendency to fluctuate based on circuit lengths, bike development and the riders 💫onboard said bikes, last week’s Portimao WorldSBK test showed that MotoGP has perhaps lost its clear advantage. 

Four WorldSBK riders including world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista, who topped the two-day test𓃲, broke the Portimao Superbike lap record, and while not a total surprise, it was ho⛦w close they were to matching MotoGP times that was the most impressive part. 

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Bautista managed to put a short race stint together where he lapped within 1-to-2 tenths slower than 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo’s fastest in-race lap during last season’s Portuguese Grand Prix, while the Spaniard’s time attack run saw him finish three tenths down on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia’s MotoGP lap record. 

Superbikes have incredible technolog𝕴y which has only got better over the last few years, however, given the cost difference between building both bikes, to lap within such small margins around a long lap is very impressive if we’re looking at it from a WorldSBK point of view.

In regards to MotoGP, improved aerodynamics in the form of winglets and holeshot devices - the front holeshot device has been banned in MotoGP for 2023 but not the rear device - have lꩲed to huge development gains, thus allowing MotoGP bikes to reach unimaginable speeds, which in-trun could and has already produced horrific-looking🀅 crashes.

And while a reduction in speed has been highlighted as something worth considering by many watching the sport, Dorna’s Director♓ of Technology, Corrado Cecchinelli, told that no change will be made unless the same reduction in speed is applied to Superbike racing. 

Cecchinelli said: "To limit th𓃲e performance of MotoGP bikes we could decrease the engine capacity or simply decrease th🅘e bore even further. Obviously we should also intervene on the Superbike. 

"The problem is also in the diversity of the mono-tyre chosen, because Pi🅠relli is focusing a lot on development and this increases the performance of the production-de🔴rived bikes." 

Cecchinelli also spoke about the challenge that comes with setting regulations as he bel꧂ieves engineers will always f𒀰ind ways to get around the obstacles in front of them.

"The problem with regulations is that no matter how much thought goes into them, they can be got around,"&nbsꦍp;added the Dorna official. "There are dozens of engineers 🐷who know how to do it… and of course, they do. 

"In the current regulatio🐬ns, for example, the wings must be built with a certain stiffness, in order not to flex and stall. As you will recall it happened in F1 before the introduction of a specific norm. 

"One of the effects of the lowering device is precisely𓆉 to change the angle of the attack on the wings. 

"Then of course, the load on the rear wheel increases which improves acceleration. These two effects combined allow for higher speeds, because in any motorsport comp🐬etition speed on the straights is crucial."