Ten-time TT winner Bruce Anstey is to race the exclusive production bike version of Honda's MotoGP bike at this year's Isle of Man races. This is a reverse engineered way of racing a MotoGP bike on the roads.
Honda produced a limited run of the RCV, with lights and mirrors and a number of other differences (like alloy engine cases rather than the magnesium of Marquez's) and sold them for £137,000 (€188,000), even though it made only 160bhp in road trim. HRC sell a £10,000 race kit to boost power to a claimed 200-plus bhp (which is what bike like the BMW S1000RR are making in Superbike spec). So, as it's now a legitimate production bike, it can race in the Superbike and Senior TTs. Padgetts are the team that helped Ian Hutchinson win five TTs in a week, and Anstey won the Superbike TT last year. It'll be exciting.
Superbike practice starts Monday 30 May. The Superbike race is scheduled for Saturday 4 June. G
this and the suter 500 have got me extra excited about the TT this year!!
ReplyDeleteI am really looking forward to the electric bike races and the sound of them whistling by. I jest of course.
ReplyDeleteThis will be interesting though, can't wait!
A spunky looking machine indeed.
ReplyDeleteWhat Adam woods said! Suter and this one, damn what great TT this can be! It looks killer too!
ReplyDeleteIn Honda we trust.
ReplyDeletePadgetts kick ass!
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