Honda RC213V: Difference between revisions

{{Racing car

| Car_name = Honda RC213V

| Category = [[MotoGP]]

| Constructor = [[Honda Racing Corporation]]

The 90° angle gave Honda more options to experiment with firing order,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2020-01-21 |title=Why are MotoGP V4s faster than inline-4s? |url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/motorcycles/motogp/why-are-motogp-v4s-faster-than-inline-4s |access-date=2022-09-18 |website=Motor Sport Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref> and in 2012 Honda wanted a firing order that would maximize horsepower. The RC213V's original firing order was described as “screamer mode."<ref name=":0" /> Compared to the firing order of the RC213's immediate predecessors, it may have been, but the actual specifications were not revealed. The intervals may have been the 180°-270°-180°-90° near-screamer intervals of Honda's V4, 180°-crank, VFR, or perhaps the 90°-270°-90°-270° "[[Big-bang firing order|droner]]" intervals of Honda's 360°-crank superbike racers, the [[RC30]] and [[RC45]].

 

For the 2012 season, Honda fielded two factory RC213Vs, ridden by [[Repsol Honda]] teammates [[Casey Stoner]] and [[Dani Pedrosa]]; a third and fourth were used by [[Álvaro Bautista]] on the [[Gresini Racing]] team, and [[Stefan Bradl]] on the [[LCR Team]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Gresini confirms Bautista signature for 2012 |publisher=MotoGP.com |date=2011-11-09 |url=https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/Rizla+Suzuki+and+Bautista+part+ways |access-date=2011-11-09 |archive-date=2014-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729123934/https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/Rizla+Suzuki+and+Bautista+part+ways |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=LCR Honda sign Bradl on two-year deal |publisher=MotoGP.com |date=2011-11-17 |url=https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/LCR+Honda+Bradl+twoyear+MotoGP+deal |access-date=2011-11-18 |archive-date=2014-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006083000/https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/LCR+Honda+Bradl+twoyear+MotoGP+deal |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Jonathan Rea]] also competed in two Grands Prix as a replacement rider for Casey Stoner, following his crash at Indianapolis. At the first pre-season test in late 2011, Pedrosa and Stoner were at the top of the timesheets.<ref>{{cite news |title=Repsol Honda Team leads the way on the first day of Valencia Test with the new RC213V |publisher=Honda |date=2011-11-08 |url=https://world.honda.com/HRC/repsolhondateam/news2011/20111108/ |access-date=2011-11-09}}</ref>

<ref>{{cite news |title=Valencia Test draws to a close with Pedrosa quickest |publisher=MotoGP.com |date=2011-11-09 |url=https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/Valencia+MotoGP+Test+Wednesday+final |access-date=2011-11-09 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> From their combined efforts, with the Repsol riders winning 12 races of 18, and finishing 2nd and 3rd in the riders championship, the RC213V won its maiden constructors championship under the first year of 1000&nbsp;cc regulations.