Colin Edwards to Ride Suter BMW in MotoGP

[QCD]

Colin Edwards to ride Suter/BMW in 2012



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Colin Edwards has confirmed he will ride a Suter/BMW machine in the new 1000cc MotoGP world championship in 2012.

The Texan will make his debut on the bike, which features a highly-tuned BMW S1000RR engine in a Swiss built Suter frame, immediately after the final round of the season in Valencia next month.

It is not the bike the 37-year-old planned to ride in MotoGP next season having left the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 squad to join the Italian-based Forward Racing project.

When the Texan announced he was moving to Forward Racing during the Misano weekend last month, he told the media he wanted to use a Yamaha R1 engine in a chassis built by his current Tech 3 crew chief Guy Coulon.

That idea collapsed when Tech 3 announced it couldn't build a frame in time for testing to commence at the end of January.

Edwards was then linked to a Yamaha R1 deal using a Moriwaki chassis but then Yamaha also ruled out supplying his team with engines.

Speaking in Sepang today ahead of this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, the double World Superbike champion said: "At the beginning I just said we’d run a Yamaha engine and a Tech 3 chassis because that was my way of putting some pressure on some guys and they obviously didn’t give a **** what I thought because they said no. I got a couple of guys against me on the European side at Yamaha, but at the end of the day it will be BMW/Suter. I’m happy to be working with those guys although it is not going to be easy. We’ll probably be looking for seconds to begin with and then we’ll cut down to half-seconds and then we’ll be looking for tenths. But we probably won’t be competitive at the first race and probably not at the last race, but we will work our ass off to build it."

[RIQUE]

I wonder if his recent injuries won't jeoperdize this project. I read his upper humerous cartilage is seriously compromised. Cross Fingers.

[QCD]

Agreed... that said:

Colin was almost a FULL SECOND faster than any of the other CRT riders

He's 2.5 seconds off the Prototypes, but that's pretty much where he EXPECTED to be...
His most telling statement was that the POWER WAS THERE, now they had to dial in the electronics to work the way he needs...
VERY cool so far...

[bananaman]

Originally Posted by QCD

Agreed... that said:

Colin was almost a FULL SECOND faster than any of the other CRT riders

He's 2.5 seconds off the Prototypes, but that's pretty much where he EXPECTED to be...
His most telling statement was that the POWER WAS THERE, now they had to dial in the electronics to work the way he needs...
VERY cool so far...

Front brake on in full lean??? GULP !!

[viperclaw]

They call it trailbraking.

Gives them extra tenths of a second a lap and is why they get paid the big bucks.

[jwxfd]

very cool, I was wondering when BMW was going to get into moto gp with the new rules...

[rxpusher]

Originally Posted by bananaman

Front brake on in full lean??? GULP !!

?? There's nothing wrong with that... As long as you're not stabbing the front brake, u can trail brake. He's probably even using the rear brake to slow the rear from rising too...

[usrodeo4]

I call it steering with the brakes...a "very" slight usage of the brakes (Typically front for obvious reason) causes the bike to turn further into the corner...just like application of the throttle causes the bike to lessen the angle of attack...my 2 cents anyway.