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This is the list of riders and teams which have so far been confirmed by the selection committee. A number of other applications have also been received and are currently under consideration.
MotoGP class
4. Alex Barros (BRA) Honda, Camel Honda
5. Colin Edwards (USA) Yamaha, Yamaha Gauloises Team
6. Makoto Tamada (JPN) Honda, Konica Minolta Honda
7. Carlos Checa (SPA) Ducati, Ducati Marlboro Team
10. Kenny Roberts (USA) Suzuki, Team Suzuki MotoGP
11. Ruben Xaus (SPA) Yamaha, Fortuna Yamaha Tech 3
12. Troy Bayliss (AUS) Honda, Camel Honda
15. Sete Gibernau (SPA) Honda, Telefonica Movistar Honda MotoGP
21. John Hopkins (USA) Suzuki, Team Suzuki MotoGP
24. Toni Elias (SPA) Yamaha, Fortuna Yamaha Tech 3
27. Franco Battaini (ITA) Blata, Blata WCM
33. Marco Melandri (ITA) Honda, Telefonica Movistar Honda MotoGP
46. Valentino Rossi (ITA) Yamaha, Yamaha Gauloises Team
56. Shinya Nakano (JPN) Kawasaki, Kawasaki Racing Team
65. Loris Capirossi (ITA) Ducati, Ducati Marlboro Team
66. Alex Hofmann (GER) Kawasaki, Kawasaki Racing Team
69. Nicky Hayden (USA) Honda, Repsol Honda Team
77 James Ellison (GBR) Blata Blata WCM
Tba. Honda, Repsol Honda Team
Tba. Ducati, D’Antin MotoGP
Tba. Ducati, D’Antin MotoGP
Tba. Aprilia, MS Aprilia Racing
Tba. Aprilia, MS Aprilia Racing
Tba. Proton KR, Proton Team KR
Tba. Proton KR, Proton Team KRArtificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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Blata is predomently a mini moto and scooter manufacturer. Full sized motorcycles are planned and production capacity is scheduled to increase to 100,000 units annually by the end of 2009.
WCM announced in July they would join forces with Czech company Blata, to develop a brand new V6 machine for the 2005 MotoGP world championship.
WCM, a multiple 500cc GP winning team while running Yamahas, have built and raced their own four-cylinder machines, without any major sponsor, for the past two seasons.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU, BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO DO IT.
GO ON! DONATE! YOU KNOW YA WANNA!
Blata minimoto’s……………….
They make and sell loads of the tiny things! Bet you could get your knee down on one of these ID!
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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Originally posted by imperialdataAnd my arse
Er……….’behind’ or ‘bottom’…..theres ladies present! Oh no its ok they’ve gone now…..
Seriously though, they cant be easy to ride all bunched up with knees round ears. You ever ridden one ID? Would pay to see XV on one!
Sorry Stuart, only joking![
]Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU, BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO DO IT.
GO ON! DONATE! YOU KNOW YA WANNA!
Couldn’t resist this and my mate Ian will kill me if he finds out…………..
I go to a pub at Five Lane Ends in Needwood near Burton (New Inn). One of the regulars has a minimoto. This is Ian on sed minimoto…..
Considering it was Ian that taught me how to knee slide, he tried but couldn’t get his knee down on the minimoto! Think his feet kept getting in the way![:p]
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE POWER TO DESTROY YOU, BUT TRUSTING THEM NOT TO DO IT.
GO ON! DONATE! YOU KNOW YA WANNA!
Blata open up the factory for motogp.com
Whilst passing through the Czech Republic on the way back from the Brno race, motogp.com took the opportunity to stop in on the Blata minibike factory, the manufacturers who have recently signed a deal with the WCM team to build a V6 four-stroke motorcycle to compete in next season’s MotoGP World Championship. The Blata name comes from owner Pavel Blata who as well as running his own team in the European Minibike Championships, initially had the idea to produce his own minibikes, and now produces over an ever-increasing 25,000 units a year whilst sending the machines to over 50 countries.
The chance to join up with WCM in the MotoGP World Championship represented a chance to get the Blata name around the world as well as being an exciting technological project explained Mr. Blata, “We are very proud that we are making this V6 MotoGP engine, and this project will mean we have to cross many obstacles. It is a very important thing for our whole production”.
WCM Team Manager Peter Clifford in turn defended both his and Blata’s decision to take on the big boys with a V6 engine, “We had an idea to build a new engine following on from the four-cylinder we’re using at the moment, with the idea to use a 6. We obviously needed someone to support it, we’d had enough trouble building the four-cylinder and our finances and technological ability is limited. I’d only known Blata as a minibike company as I’m sure the rest of us have. In a meeting between myself and Pavel Blata it became clear early in the piece that our thinking ran very much in the same direction in as much as how we wanted to do things and go racing. I almost twisted his arm a bit, and suggested we do it soon.
He took the whole thing on board and has accepted the challenge which is tremendous for everybody”Clifford is adamant that this project will see the team firmly established within MotoGP, and that it is no passing fixation for him or Blata, “We know it’s going to be hard, we’ve proven to ourselves how hard it is over the last couple of years, and it was no surprise that it’s tough, and this will be no different. But Blata are not here just to have a shot at it and if they don’t like it leave it alone – they want to be in this for the long-term, they like us are prepared to go through the process of learning what it takes, and we know where we are and where we are in respect to the big wheels of the sport, the Honda, Yamaha and Ducati. We’re at the opposite end, and if you don’t take up the challenge you’re never going to know. We are making this deal with not just a manufacturer, but with the whole of the country of the Czech Republic and we’re proud to be going into this project now”.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
LOVE IS GIVING SOMEONE THE ABILITY TO DESTROY YOU, THEN TRUSTING THEM NOT TO.
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, Vodka in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming…….WOO HOO, what a ride!
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