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  title info:
    title: Engine design concepts for World Championship Grand Prix motorcycles
  name:
    name part: Boretti, Alberto A.
  name:
    name part: IEEE Xplore (Online service)
    role:
      role term: distributor.
  name:
    name part: Society of Automotive Engineers
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (v, 127 pages) : illustrations, digital file.
  abstract: The World Championship Grand Prix (WCGP) is the premier championship event of motorcycle road racing. The WCGP was established in 1949 by the sport's governing body, the Fďřation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), and is the oldest world championship event in the motorsports arena. This book, developed especially for racing enthusiasts by motorsports engineering expert Dr. Alberto Boretti, provides a broad view of WCGP motorcycle racing and vehicles, but is primarily focused on the design of four-stroke engines for the MotoGP class. The book opens with general background on MotoGP governing bodies and a history of the event's classes since the competition began in 1949. It then presents some of the key engines that have been developed and used for the competition through the years. Technologies that are used in today's MotoGP engines are discussed. A sidebar discussion on calculating brake, indicated, and friction performance parameters provides mathematical information for readers who like such technical details. Future developments of MotoGP engines, including the use of biofuels and recovery of thermal and braking energy, are presented. The introduction concludes with a chart that details the winners of the various classes of WCGP motorcycle racing since the competition began in 1949. The bulk of the book consists of four previously published SAE technical papers that were expressly chosen by Dr. Boretti to provide greater insight to the relationships between engine parameters and performance, namely the influence on friction and mean effective pressure of traditional spark ignited four stroke engines tuned for a narrow high power output. The first paper provides the reader with a quick way to estimate the friction loss and engine output. The second paper discusses output and fuel consumption of multi-valve motorcycle engines. The third paper, published in 2002, compares WCGP engines developed to comply with the then-new FIM regulations that allowed four-strok…
  table of contents: Introduction. The oldest motorsport world championship ; The four-stroke excellence from the 1950s to the early 1970s ; The four-stroke design during the two-stroke era, early 1970s to early 2000s ; The four-stroke MotoGP era ; Design of today's MotoGP engines ; Eight suggested papers on engine design ; Where should MotoGP go in the next few years? ; References ; World Championship Grand Prix riders' and manufacturers' world champions -- Estimate of total engine loss and engine output in four stroke S.I. engines / Shizuo Yagi ... [et al.] --Output and fuel consumption of motorcycle multivalve engines / Hiroyuki Tsuzuku and Naoki Tsuchida -- Parametric design of FIM WGP engines / Alberto A. Boretti -- Changes to FIN-MotoGP rules to reduce costs and make racing more directly relevant to road motorcycle development / Alberto A. Boretti and Harry C. Watson -- 57 2-(3)-cylinder concepts for high output motorcycles and commuter / Franz J. Laimboeck, Christian Spanner, and Andreas Mair -- Comparison of four stroke MotoGP engines / G. Cantore and E. Mattarelli -- Practical use of the engine testing dyno with the vehicle simulation for the MotoGP race engine development / Kimihisa Matsuyama, Masamitsu Sugi, and Noboru Yabe -- Development of elliptical piston enginer for motorcycle / Suguru Kanazawa ... [et al.].
  note: edited by Alberto A. Boretti.
  note: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
  note: Also available in print.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Motorcycles, Racing
    topic: Motors
    topic: Design and construction
  classification: TL445 .E54 2012eb
  classification: 629.2/275
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2012939985
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Electronic publications
    name:
      name part: Society of Automotive Engineers.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: PT (Series) (Warrendale, Pa.) ; 155
  identifier: 9780768078084
  identifier: 9780768077995
  identifier: 0768077990
  identifier: 2012939985
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  access condition: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
  record info:
    record content source: CaBNVSL
    record creation date: 181229
    record change date: 20201020065828.0
    record identifier: in00004148611
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng