PROTOTYPE RACING FOR THE MASSES In explaining the new class, Carlos Ezpeleta, Chief Sporting Officer, MotoGP Sports Entertainment, said“ this should be an improvement to all sides of the sport, not only in this paddock( grand prix racing) but at grassroots motorcycle racing programmes around the world. We invest a lot in MotoGP and we think this is a further step in the right direction, from all angles of the sport, from safety, the quality of the riders, from the racing itself, aligning the riders in the right steps toward MotoGP, which is what Moto2 and Moto3 are all about.“ Bringing all this together with such an important brand, bringing Yamaha back to the lightweight class after so many years, we are really, really happy. I don’ t think we could have a better company for this journey than Yamaha,” he concluded. Ezpeleta made it clear that both Yamaha and
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MotoGP Sports Entertainment are committed to building a class for the new generation Moto3 bikes into national championships in order to give young riders the opportunity to sample pure-bred racing machines, rather than just the production machines currently being raced. They are aware that at national and regional level, cost is critical so the specification of the bikes will be less than at grand prix. It is possible the engines for the national series may be very close to stock. Yamaha will be relying on its national distributors to have good rapport with the various governing bodies to enable the return of a pure-bred racing class to national series, which are currently full of non-adjustable production machines which do little to teach riders and mechanics the basics of good chassis set-up, something critical before any step into GP racing.
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