A good article by GPOne about the costs/replacement parts of crashing a MotoGP bike featuring the beebs favorite: Crashlow. https://www.gpone.com/it/2020/01/04...motogp-ecco-il-conto-preciso-ed-e-salato.html and google has a translate button for those who complain about not being bilingual
The site has an English version of what appears to be a different writeup taken from the same interview: https://www.gpone.com/en/2020/01/04...a-million-in-falls-a-year-but-i-love-him.html You can also run the article through Google translate from any device to get the full article: https://translate.google.com/transl...motogp-ecco-il-conto-preciso-ed-e-salato.html
I thought the last paragraph was interesting in regards to the engine. He says they rarely have to replace the engine due to a crash because it is so protected. I would have thought that the chance of damage internally due to lack of lubrication would be reason enough to change it. I remember talking to Beaubier's crew at the last NJMP round in 2016. On Saturday Cam had a lowside that didn't look too bad, but that night they decided to change the engine anyway. He mechanic said they didn't want to take any chances with the championship so they were putting a fresh engine in the bike. Of course the engine ended up blowing up on Sunday during the race anyway.
Well duh. Cam’s motors are stock junk out of japan made of very obtainable obtanium metal. Cal’s motors are made of a material called unobtanium only known to exist on the planet pandora. Has no one else seen this documentary too?
The engines are probably designed with some amount of crash protection in mind. They're only allowed 5 per season so blowing one up in a lowside could be very costly to championship points if allocation is exceeded.
