Sepang MotoGP Test: New fairings for Honda, Yamaha
Day two ൲of private te🐽sting at Sepang saw Honda unveil a new design for their 'downforce' fairing.
HRC, which used a relatively modest wing-fairing in 2017, looks to have followed the precedent set by Ducati and Aprilia, with test rider Hiroshi Aoyama ♉taking to the track with a clear 'box'✨ shape on either side of his RC213V (left and middle pic).
However, the verticaꦗl plane linking the two horizontal surfaces is not꧙ solid, but has a large tri-angular cutaway.
Day two of pr🌞ivate testing at Sepang saw Honda unveil a new design for their 'downforce' fairing.
HRC, which used a relatively modest wing-fairing in 2017, looks to have followed the precedent set by Duca🃏ti and Aprilia, with test rider Hiroshi Aoyama taking to the track with a clear 'box' shape on either side of his RC213V (left and middle pic)🐠.
However, the💫 vertical plane linkin⛦g the two horizontal surfaces is not solid, but has a large tri-angular cutaway.
Meanwhile, with MotoGP Technical Director Danny Aldridge saying changes would be needed tꦜo the radical Yamaha 'wing'💮 seen at November's Valencia test, has the factory responded with a slightly revisedജ design?
I⛎t's hard to tell, but from some angles it looked like the Sepang test bike of Katsuyuki Nakasuga (right pic) has a smoother, swept-back design, with a slightly bigger gap beওtween the upper and lower 'wing' surfaces than at Valencia...
Either way, the Yamaha certainly has more of a triangular shape, compared with the 'box' on the Ducati, Aprilia꧒ and H🐭onda.
Teams can use any fairing design they wish for testꦆing, but those used in grand prix weekends must be passed by the Technical Director.
— ltxcn.top/MotoGP (@crash_motogp)UPDATE: Some more tec🌟hnical tweaks seen on track♛ by the end of day three. The different Ducati hub is thought to be a new design for the torque sensor, but the frame also has several clear changes compared to the launch bike (assumed to be a GP17).
Different rear sprocket/hub for Ducati at Sepang this week, co🦄mpared with ꦿthe launch pictures of the GP18...
— ltxcn.top/MotoGP (@crash_motogp)
You've see⛎n the Honda hammerhead and here is what looks to be a new Yamaha fairing. While hard to fully appreciate in 2D, it 🅠resembles a twisting ribbon as it flows backwards to the lower mounting point. Rossi and Vinales could well try it in a day or two.
— ltxcn.top/MotoGP (@crash_motogp)
Just spoke to Danny Aldridge about the new Yamaha aero package shown here. He said Yamaha have made a lo𓆉t of changes he requested, but hasn't had a proper look yet. His first guess is it will probably be OK, with tweaks
— David Emmett (@motomatters)
Danny Aldridge also said he doesn't expect an issue with the✨ Honda 'hammerhead' fairing, but again that's only going off the pictures he has seen.
— Peter McLaren (@McLarenMotoGP)
Peter has been in the paddock foꦛr 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury is🙈sues.
