Moto2: Triumph, new ECU set for first test

Moto2 chassis manufacturers will get their first taste of how t🌱he 2019 Triumph engine will perform with the new, more advance🅺d, Magneti Marelli ECU during an upcoming test at Aragon.
While Kalex is known to have conducted initial chassis tests using a standard road version of the 765cꦚc Triumph three-cylinder, upgraded engines - c🌼omparable with the official 2019 race version - will be provided for the ECU debut at Aragon.
These interim engines have been modified by Externpro, which prepares the existing 600cc Honda powerplants and🌠 will do the same during the Triumph Moto2 era.
The ๊conversion upgrade is needed due to the extra rp💫m that will be unleashed by the new ECU. The Magneti Marelli system will also (eventually) allow riders to learn some of the electronic controls used in the company's MotoGP ECU.
"On the 19th of June we have the first sort of official roll-out with the engines, chassis manufacturers and ECU at Aragon," MotoGP Technical Director Danny Aldridge told ltxcn.top.
"We will give them an upgraded [Triumph] engine. We have a conveꦏrsion kit, which will bring it up to [Moto2] spec.
"It's not ⛎the official 2019 engine, but it's up to the same spec as the official engine will be.
"The standard Triumph engine only runs to 12,400rpm. But with the Magneti Marelli ECU we're ꦐgoing to run - it's not confirmed - but about 14,000rpm. So we don't want to give them the new ECU to test and then blow up the standard [road] engines!
"With the H൲onda engine [which uses a standard ECU] it was not a problem, but now they have to use our [new Magneti Marelli] ECU.
"So Trevor [Morris] from Externpro is supplying a conversion kit. The production engines were sent to Externpro and they've converted them s🉐o they can run the new ECU at the Aragon test and then the chassis manufacturers can c𒁃arry on testing with the new ECU for the rest of the year.
"There will be very little difference in the performance of the 'converted' en⭕gines and the official 2019 Moto2 engine."
The final spec 2019 Triumph race engines are then scheduled to make an official track deౠbut at the end of November.
"We will have a test on Novemb♔er 21, 22 and 23 in Jerez - with all the teams - and that will be with the offiꦗcial 2019 engines," Aldridge confirmed.

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