BOTT M210, Bottpower’s Moto2.

Since the last change of the rules saying that all Moto2 bikes will use a Honda engine, I didn’t write about our project. We had some news, the most important is the incorporation of Pablo Gonzalez de Chaves to the Bottpower team.
Since August I work in Bottpower full-time and now Pablo is doing the same. For those of you which don’t know who is Pablo, he is one of the designers of the Demonstener D1200R that already appeared some time ago in this blog.

Pablo has an enviable CV, he worked as designer in Lamborghini, and last summer he finished his MSc in Motorsport Engineering, in Oxford Brookes, England. He went there to study because he achieved a Fernando Alonso scholarship.. I think he has been a great signing for Bottpower!  🙂

Pablo is engineer, but one of his strong points is industrial design. In Bottpower, till now this task was made by Hugo van Waaijen, but for this Moto2 project we need to work very fast and Hugo can not work full-time on it, so Pablo is the one who is working in the Moto2 bodywork design.

By the way, by the moment we call the bike BOTT M210 (M2 because it is a Moto2 bike, and 10 because it is our prototype for 2010 season).

Next image is a sketch made by Pablo which shows the way we are following regarding the bodywork design.

Pablo: “We are looking for a bodywork that covers the bike almost completely. A bodywork with classic and smooth shapes, far from current aesthetics of street superbikes. The size will be halfway through the compact bodyworks of current SuperSports and the more “enfolding” Aprilias 250 GGPP. We prefer no to do something too much enfolding to avoid problems with side wind.
On a race bike functionality and aerodynamics must be ahead of any trend so we also want to avoid ultra-short tails like the ones of the new Aprilias V4 and previous Honda MotoGP.
We still must add some air exhaust ducts at the sides of the bodywork, althoug the bike would be more aerodynamic if we could avoid it”.

Using Pablo’s sketch, Ernesto Arnaez from Husmee Studio Graphique! is studing graphic possibilities about which could be the “corporative” image of the bike. He has made a lot of sketches, and by the moment this is our favourite one.

Both sketches are not definitive designs, they are just concept sketches that show the way we are following by the moment.

Right now Pablo is already working in the bodywork design in 3D and I am focused on the chassis design. Our objective is to weld the chassis before the end of the year, and to have a  bike ready to ride in February.

As always you will find bigger size images in our Flickr gallery.