In an interview in September 2020 Rossi himself stated it was not to be for 2021 but he would be making a move for 2022 to bring his team up to the premier class of racing.
MOTOGP TEAMS FULL
The grid was what is considered full for 2021.Ĭontracts were not up until 2022 and would require another team to withdraw form the season to make room for the team owned by Rossi.
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Let’s have a look at how it all changed for the satellite teams. However, while we all thought Rossi moving to a satellite team would be the biggest news, it may well be the arrival of his own team in MotoGP that is the most surprising.Īs late as September 2020 it was impossible for Rossi’s VR46 Sky Racing team to have a spot on the 2021 MotoGP Premier Class Grid. Valentino Rossi Courtesy of Neuweiser on FlickrĪlex Marquez also went to a satellite team with LCR Honda following a less than stellar season with Repsol Honda in 2020. Miller has been given the much sought after number one rider of the Factory Ducati team and Fabio Quartararo has moved up to Factory Yamaha. The likes of Jack Miller for example, and Fabio Quartararo who won the Independent Rider Championship and claimed a massive 197 of the Petronas Teams 307 points for the season have both now landed seats on a factory team. In fact, many of the big names taking podiums, pole position and giving the front of the pack a good run for their money, are from satellite teams. Some may think because they are a satellite team, they have less talented riders.
MOTOGP TEAMS SOFTWARE
Providing unified software for these systems eliminates the ability to manipulate this data to create the effect of increased traction control or braking advantages.ĭorna decided it was easier to unify and supply the software that manages these systems than to try to police the manipulation of them, which is a direct breach of the rules, but almost impossible to monitor. So, in 2016 Dorna began a unification process of software across the field that has proven a huge success in achieving a more exciting race each round. There were also questions around how far certain software could be manipulated to gain an even bigger advantage in terms of bike performance on race day. Not only did factory teams have advanced technology they had the technicians to utilise it better. What is the unified software and how has it closed the gap between teams?īefore 2016 satellite teams were at a disadvantage due to software available. If you follow this general rule you can never go wrong. The general rule is a factory team manufactures the bike and manages the team, a satellite team or independent team do not manufacture their own bike and have a contract with a factory to utilise their bikes and technology. There are so many variations of how a factory team may contract with an independent team it is impossible to say exactly how each team works. There can be funding provided by the factory to cover wages, they may agree to provide technology and technicians. While Rossi’s protégé and now teammate, Franco Morbidelli, will continue with an older-spec Yamaha M1. Rossi will ride the factory-spec bike the same as factory Yamaha. We will see a similar situation with the Petronas team.
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However his teammate Takaaki Nakagami was riding the 2019 version. However, it is not always black and white, it really depends on the contract each independent (satellite) team has with the factory they are purchasing or leasing the bike from.įor example, last year Cal Crutchlow’s bike was the 2020 RCV213v, the same as the Marquez brothers’. They will also in theory have technology from at least the year before, as well as an older version of the factory teams’ bike.
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The team is neither managed nor funded by the factory and they do not build the bikes themselves. In theory this means the factory riders have the latest bike with the latest technology and access to the best engineers, mechanics and so on.Ī satellite team has the bike on lease or purchased from a factory i.e.
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2021 Repsol Honda Team Courtesy of Flickr