¿What is the Moto GP?

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MotoGP is the top category of the Motorcycle World Championship, considered the most important international competition in the field of speed motorcycling. Its organization is determined by the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), as is the case with the other categories of the championship (Moto2 and Moto3).

This is the category "queen" of the championship, because it competes with the largest displacement bikes. From the mid-70s until 2002, the category allowed a displacement of 500cc regardless of whether the engine was two or four times. Because of this, all engines were two-stroke thanks to their greater power delivery at the same displacement. In 2002 the regulation changed to facilitate the jump to four times, probably influenced by the low market share of high-displacement and two-stroke street bikes. The new rules allowed builders to choose between two-stroke bikes (500cc or less) and four-stroke bikes (990cc or less).

Despite the significant increase in costs that this change meant, due to the increase in displacement, four-stroke motorcycles could quickly dominate rivals who still used two-stroke engines. The result was that as of 2003 there were no longer two-stroke motorcycles in the queen category, known since then as MotoGP. Later, in 2007, the International Federation reduced the maximum displacement to 800cc; however, in 2012 it was converted to a 1000cc format.

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With that increase in displacement, the top speed record was in danger. Such a mark had been established by Dani Pedrosa in 2009 in the Italian circuit of Mugello, 2 reaching 349.3 km / h with an 800cc motorcycle; Pedrosa beat Loris Capirossi, who had reached 347.4 km / h on a 990cc motorcycle.

Currently, there is a new speed record set at the Italian prize in Mugello, it was measured on the morning of Saturday, May 31, 2014 during the "Free practice 3" or free practices 3. The pilot who accomplished this feat was the Italian Andrea Iannone, aboard his powerful Ducati Desmosedici of the Pramac Racing team. The official speed recorded by the Dorna sensors was 349.6 km / h, which exceeds the previous record that had been achieved by Dani Pedrosa in 2009 in 2009 on that same stage by 0.312 km / h.

Andrea Dovizioso himself reached 356.7 km / h during the third free trial and set a new absolute top speed record in MotoGP, setting it at 356.7 km / h.