Creating a team.

I started working in motorbike racing as telemetric in the CEV, in Kawasaki D’Antin team, in 2007 season. I met there Jose Luis Contreras, he was the “real” telemetric of the team (he was combining the CEV with MotoGP in Ducati Pramac Team). He teached me how to manage telemetry and electronic engine management.

I think that from the first day we had a good connection. We both love motorcycle races and technology, and we both try to approach our projects in a scientific way (within our means).
I think we both are very humble regarding what we think we know. I mean, we are very aware that our knowledge is very limited and that we have almost everything to learn.
Finally we both had one more thing in common. We dedicated most of our free time and money to personal motorbike projects approached with the intention of learning and increase our know-how. In that time I was working in the Morlaco and Jose was developing an electronic device that would allow him to generate his own motorbike control strategies (for example traction control, drive by wire, launch control, inteligent fuel compsuption control, etc).

During 2008 our paths split up, Jose abandoned the CEV to concentrate in MotoGP and I moved to Kawasaki Palmeto team. But we kept in contact and we kept informing each other about our projects.

Some months ago, when I explained Jose that I quit from my mechanical engineer job to concentrate in Bottpower and the Moto2 project, we thought about the possibility of become partners. He is more interested in engines and electronics and I am more interested in chassis, so we thought that we could make a good team. During the last months the idea was thinked over and finally we decided to do it. So now Bottpower core is formed by Jose and me, and we work together with a common objective, we want Bottpower to be a competitive racing brand.

In the Moto2 bike that we are building now, we already will see the first fruits of Jose’s work with electronics. You know that nowadays electronics has become in a fundamental part of racing motorbikes. If you want to be competitive you need a top noth electronics package. We will have our own technology, that will allow us to develop our own ideas at a reasonable cost.

I will talk about it with more detail in the next post.