Having a good opportunity to test drive on the Moto 2 machine made by Triumph, this article will be giving you an information about the test drive performance.
Last year in June, Triumph announced that they will be the official engine supplier of the Moto 2 championship from the 2019 season onwards through a signed contract with Dorna, the commercial rights holder of MotoGPTM, and will supply the engine exclusively for three years.
Honda has supplied CBR600RR-based engines as an official supplier since the birth of Moto 2 as a category replacing the two-stroke WGP250cc class in 2010. As Moto 2 machines are regulated as prototypes, most of the teams use chassis manufactured by proven constructors such as "Calex", "Sutter" and "Tech3".
In other words, Moto 2 is a race with a prototype machine with the same condition tying on the engine.
Moto 2 engine mounted on the body of Daytona 675
Triumph's Moto 2 machine standing in front of them looks exactly like Daytona 675 at first glance.
However, the engine was a remarkable improvement based on 765cc of the water-cooled parallel 3-cylinder DOHC 4 valve 3 cylinder mounted on the new street triple RS. In other words, this is exactly the Moto 2 engine that is supplied from the 2019 season.
The remodeling / strengthening spot covers almost the whole area of the engine, but by improving the overall performance by increasing the rotation speed of the engine while increasing the intake efficiency of the engine, the maximum output is 133ps, the maximum torque is 80Nm (normal is 123 ps / 11, 700 rpm, 77 Nm / 10, 800 rpm) has been achieved.
The chassis has almost diverted Daytona 675, and it is officially positioned as "Moto2 engine development precedent motorcycle test".
As a remarkable remodeling part on the motorcycle body surface, they attached fully-adjustable made by K-tech UK and steering damper made by GPR to front and rear suspension, equipped with Arrow made racing exhaust system and forged type wide wheels and wearing slick tires.
Afterwards equipped with reverse change racing step and quick shifter. Since it is a racing machine, there is no ABS nor tracton. The brake seems to be normal including the disc.
Sharpened acceleration and overwhelming sense of competence
It was the Spanish-Almería circuit that set the test drive. It is an internationally rated circuit which is over 4km a week.
It was a test drive experience with stringent conditions such as Moto 2 machine suddenly in the first course and 3 laps, but they want to share the impression as much as possible.
They once used to hit the race with Daytona 675, but the overall feeling, such as lipose and center of gravity balance is similar.
And the powerful torque feeling of the mid range is unique to Triumph 3 cylinder. The power that gets rid of the throat at the same time as opening the throttle. However, the sense of competence is quite different from that of commercial vehicles.
Ultra smooth smooth rise achieved by lowering the hyperegulation and inertia (sliding resistance inside the engine) to the limit as much as the displacement of the Daytona 675 by 90cc, and sharp responsiveness that hesitates to open the throttle that is exactly the racing engine itself.
If you do not take properly the crouching position and opens the throttle poorly, the front will rise without mercy.
There are a lot of vertical blinds where you can not see ahead of the rugged course and you are required to have the toughness just to open the accelerator aiming at the top of that hill. Even that alone will reduce nerves, but anyway, in addition to the engine sharpened like a cutting knife that cuts off and lightweight motorcycle body, the combination of front and rear suspension of K Tech which strengthened the damping force for the race truck is quite tough and honestly finished they could not get used to it.
All the British champions of SS600 who participated as Triumph's test rider flew off the high speed corner with a tremendous momentum, but they think that it is the machine that matches only after running at that level.
However, it is definitely an engine that has considerable potential. They have also ridden a lot of super sports models until now, but they thought that this engine had a nominal capability of 133ps or more.
Is Moto 2 a step to the next Daytona !?
Finally they tried several questions to Triumph's chief engineer, Stuart Wood who had come to visit the test situation.
Many of you probably want to know the most what would be an advantage of 3 cylinders.
Mr. Wood says, "Whether Triumph has been researching and developing three cylinders for many years, this time Moto 2 is also on its extension line I think that it is a new challenge, and the three-cylinder engine has sufficient potential ", but it seems to have been successfully laid, but the smile was confiden
By the way, it seems that the engine itself is almost 100% complete even in the present situation, and it seems that further adjustment of ECU etc. will be advanced further from now.
In addition, the know-how gained in the development of the Moto 2 engine is, of course, believed to be fed back to commercial vehicles.
So, as one of the most interesting things, in response to the question of whether this project represents the possibility of the next Super Sport Model "Daytona 765", "I can not answer that, but in a very interesting theme It shows a positive view that "There is."
The voice to Daytona resurrection in Japan is also big, so this is what we all hope and realize. Let's expect it in the long run. Anyway, everyone is looking forward to the 2019 season from now on next spring.
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Original Source[ Webike Japan(*Japanese) ]
