Here's a video fully focused on the four Honda RC213V prototypes I recorded last week during a test session among some of the 2024 MotoGP teams at Mugello Circuit, in Italy.
The RC213V was introduced in 2012 as a successor to the RC212V model. Rules for 2012 allowed motorcycles up to 1,000 cc in capacity, with a limit of 4 cylinders and a maximum 81mm cylinder bore. It's name has the following meaning:
- RC= Honda's traditional racing prefix for 4-stroke bikes
- 213= third works bike of the 21st century
- V= V engine
Compared to the RC212V, the most significant new design features of the RC213V were its 1000cc displacement and 90° cylinder angle (RC212V's engine was a 75.5° V4). Of course the bike has been developed and modified over the last decade to adapt to the obvious changes in the rules, but as you well know they are currently going through a rather dark period of their motorcycling racing history.
At the moment Honda, together with Yamaha, is placed in the lowest rank of the new MotoGP concessions system, an attempt to help the manufacturers most in need from a performance point of view, stipulated by a ranking depending on the percentage of the possible maximum points each brand has accrued in a determined time frame.
One very beneficial aspect of being in the lowest rank is the possibility to carry out test days with the official riders, limited only by the number of tyres available (which are higher in number than the highest ranked constructors). Other advantages for these teams are the development of the engine, which, unlike the constructors ranked higher, is not frozen, and the possibility to test on an unlimited number of circuits where a World Championship race will be held.
Riders taking part were Repsol Honda’s Joan Mir and Luca Marini and LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco and Takaaki Nakagami. Many aero solutions were tested as well as different exhaust pipes (for what I managed to spot in these scenes), but most likely they have also tried something from a mechanical and setup point of view.
Listen to the loud 1,000cc, DOHC V4 engine screaming at over 17,000 rpms on the hills of Mugello!
0:00 Pit Exits & Practice Start
1:27 Action on track
13:50 Pitting In
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Event: MotoGP Private Testing 2024
Where: Mugello Circuit, Italy
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