FIM Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix
Decision of the Grand Prix Commission
The Grand Prix Commission, composed of Messrs. Carmelo Ezpeleta (Dorna, Chairman), Ignacio Verneda (FIM CEO), Herve Poncharal (IRTA) and Takanao Tsubouchi (MSMA) in the presence of Javier Alonso (Dorna) and Mike Trimby (IRTA, Secretary of the meeting), in a meeting held on 10th October in Motegi (JAP), made the following decisions:
Technical Regulations
Effective 2016
Sample Engines MotoGP Class:
It was already approved that manufacturers can homologate engines with different specifications. This is to allow manufacturers to perhaps lease engines from previous years. To avoid the expense and complication of a manufacturer having to provide a complete sample engine for each specification it has been agreed that they may submit a single sample engine for sealing. Different versions of the homologated engine will be controlled by sealing examples of the components that differ from the main sample engine.
Sealed Engines MotoGP Class:
New testing regulations for the MotoGP class were recently approved allowing for up to five days of private testing for each team. To avoid the expense of acquiring additional engines just for testing it will no longer be a requirement for engines to be sealed to prevent running between events.
Moto2 Class Quickshifter:
To ensure that signals from quickshifter are exclusively used for that purpose, a standard six pin connector will now be mandatory. This will enable the technical staff to check that any signals from this component are not used for performance enhancing purposes.
A regularly updated version of the FIM Grand Prix Regulations which contains the detailed text of the regulation changes may be viewed shortly on: