{"id":23123,"date":"2019-12-04T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/?p=23123"},"modified":"2019-12-04T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:34:41","slug":"when-motogp-meets-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/when-motogp-meets-formula-1\/","title":{"rendered":"When MotoGP meets Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Takaaki Nakagami and Daniil Kvyat meet<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Honda aces Takaaki Nakagami and Daniil Kvyat\u00a0had plenty to say when they met to discuss the sports they love<\/strong><\/p>\n

Formula 1 and MotoGP are the world\u2019s two biggest motorsport championships. And most Formula 1 drivers are as fascinated by MotoGP\u00a0as most MotoGP riders are fascinated by F1.<\/p>\n

Although the differences between racing on four wheels and two wheels are huge.The ultimate goal is the same: to maximise speed and grip to minimise lap times and race times.<\/p>\n

Thus Daniil Kvyat\u00a0<\/strong> and Takaaki Nakagami <\/strong> had plenty to talk about .When they got together for a chat during the Honda Racing Thanks Day at Twin Ring Motegi earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda driver Kvyat. Who completes his first Formula 1 season with. Honda power in Abu Dhabi this weekend, is a keen fan of MotoGP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to watch MotoGP because there\u2019s so much fighting \u2013 every lap there\u2019s something happening,\u201d said the 25-year-old Russian. Who scored his first Honda-powered F1 podium at July\u2019s German Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are faster over a lap, but in terms of the difficulty of the task, what you guys do looks very crazy to us. And big respect to you MotoGP guys because you push so hard, even when you are injured. That\u2019s incredible and must be so difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kvyat does ride two wheels, when he\u2019s at home in Monaco. \u201cI have a scooter \u2013 it does 50km\/h, downhill \u2013 it\u2019s enough for me!\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n

Nakagami is just as impressed by what Kvyat does in Formula 1.\u00a0<\/h3>\n

\u201cI always follow F1 \u2013 it\u2019s very interesting,\u201d said the LCR Honda IDEMITSU rider. Currently recovering from surgery to fix a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watch the onboard camera shots and what. I completely don\u2019t understand is how you brake so late \u2013 nobody can do that on two wheels.<\/p>\n

Four wheels and two wheels are completely different because of the g-force and downforce.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unlike MotoGP bikes.Formula 1 cars are designed to create maximum downforce within.The aerodynamics regulations to increase grip.<\/p>\n

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This allows drivers to brake very late and corner very fast .Experiencing more than 5g during braking and 6g during cornering. MotoGP riders experience about 1.7g on the brakes and through the corners.<\/p>\n

No wonder F1 cars get around racetracks so much quicker. The two championships only share four venues (Barcelona, Red Bull Ring.Silverstone and Circuit of the Americas) but the story is always the same.<\/p>\n

F1 cars are around 30 percent quicker over a lap. At COTA. For example, the F1 lap record stands at 1m 36.169s, while the MotoGP lap record is 2m 04.277s.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, however, MotoGP \u00a0bikes are often faster on top speed, thanks to their lack of downforce. At COTA the quickest MotoGP bikes exceed 345km\/h at the end of the American track\u2019s 1km back straight.<\/p>\n

About 15km\/h better than the fastest F1 cars. But F1 drivers get stopped for the next corner in 125 metres .While MotoGP riders take more than 200 metres to decelerate!<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut it\u2019s not the speed or lap time that\u2019s important \u2013 it\u2019s what you take out of the given machine,\u201d added Kvyat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have so much downforce and also four wheels .That\u2019s why we can brake so much later and corner with so much more speed. But in MotoGP \u00a0it\u2019s easier to dive past someone.<\/p>\n

Whereas in F1 we lose downforce when we get close to another car, so it\u2019s really difficult to make a move.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aerodynamics have been a major part of F1design for decades, with elaborate front and rear wings creating downforce. Winglets first appeared in MotoGP \u00a0just a few years ago, to reduce wheelies as riders accelerate out of corners.<\/p>\n

But the amount downforce is tiny compared to F1, usually less than 20kg of load on the front tyre.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of horsepower in MotoGP ,\u201d said Nakagami. Who next year will race his third season in MotoGP aboard a Honda RC213V.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the bike wheelies and the front tyre doesn\u2019t touch the ground. This is the main reason we have wings in MotoGP \u2013 to help keep the front on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Japanese and Kvyat were able to meet at the .Honda racing Thanks Day because Honda is the only company that contests F1 and MotoGP.<\/p>\n

Support from Honda fans<\/h3>\n

As well as numerous other two- and four-wheel motorsports.Including IndyCar.World Superbikes, the World Touring Car Cup and the MXGP World Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe support I felt here and from Honda fans and also Suzuka was incredible. I\u2019d like to thank the Japanese fans for the passion they bring to our sport,\u201d said Kvyat during his first visit to the event.<\/p>\n

Nakagami has been a regular at the Thanks Day for a while. His career has been powered by Honda since 2012 when he graduated to the Moto2 category. Which gave him his first Grand Prix victories, in 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis special event for the fans is really nice .Because during race weekends . It\u2019s really difficult to talk with fans face to face because of the stress and because we are so focused on racing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere the fans can see our faces more relaxed and it\u2019s really nice to be with all the four-wheel guys and the two-wheel guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Source : Honda Moto<\/p>\n

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Testing of 220 GSX-RR<\/a>
Kallio assumes factory spot<\/a>
KTM announced 2020 special edition models<\/a>\u00a0
Honda CBR250RR will get four cylinder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":23125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23123"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23146,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23123\/revisions\/23146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}