Engine design concepts for World Championship Grand Prix motorcycles
By: edited by Alberto A. Boretti
Series: SAE International progress in technology series -- PT-155; PT (Series) (Warrendale, Pa.) -- 155.
Publisher: SAE International
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Warrendale, Penn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780768077995
Subjects: Racing Motorcycles; Motors; Design and construction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: The oldest motorsport world championship ;; title: The four-stroke excellence from the 1950s to the early 1970s ;; title: The four-stroke design during the two-stroke era, early 1970s to early 2000s ;; title: The four-stroke MotoGP era ;; title: Design of today's MotoGP engines ;; title: Eight suggested papers on engine design ;; title: Where should MotoGP go in the next  few years? ;; title: References ;; title: World Championship Grand Prix riders' and manufacturers' world champions --; title: Estimate of total engine loss and engine output in four stroke S.I. engines  -- Shizuo Yagi ... [et al.]; title: Output and fuel consumption of motorcycle multivalve engines  -- Hiroyuki Tsuzuku and Naoki Tsuchida; title: Parametric design of FIM WGP engines  -- Alberto A. Boretti; title: 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; title: 57 2-(3)-cylinder concepts for high output motorcycles and commuter  -- Franz J. Laimboeck, Christian Spanner, and Andreas Mair; title: Comparison of four stroke MotoGP engines  -- G. Cantore and E. Mattarelli; title: Practical use of the engine testing dyno with the vehicle simulation for the MotoGP race engine development  -- Kimihisa Matsuyama, Masamitsu Sugi, and Noboru Yabe; title: Development of elliptical piston enginer for motorcycle -- Suguru Kanazawa ... [et al.].