It's a 'side-efꦐfect', but the MotoGP rules banning externa🎶l winglets has steered aerodynamic development into a street-legal direction.

While the former wings would clearly have been illegal for production machines, at least so꧃me of the new fairings could pas𝔉s the necessary road regulations.

Such production use would in turn mean the appearance of 'winglet' fairings in Superbike ra𝓡cing.

"What [the MotoGP manufacturers] are doing now, or what I expect they will be doing, is much more road relevant than horrible wings. This is a good by-product of the new regulations," MotoGP Director of Technology Corrado Cecchinelli told mahbx.com.

"These fairings could be used in a high-end road machine, but not the wings. Anyway, this was not the goal, but ๊nonetheless it i🗹s a useful side-effect."

Alongside the ban on external winglets is a new limit on aerodynamic development, restricting🤪 all but new manufacturers to only one update during the season.

"I think we have found a reasonable compromise, because 🔯we had to put a limit on two main things: One, a crazy cost and investment in aerodynamics. Two, safety raised by the Safety Commission, which means the riders, wh♈ich was passed onto us by the FIM," Cecchinelli said.

"We had to try and hit both targets and I think we hit the cost by reducing the amount of evolution you can do💎, which is basically one-per-year for everyone but KTM, as a new manufacturer. And we intro⭕duced a better wording and a lot of discretion for the Technical Director to decide if something is compliant [with the ban on external wings] and safe or not.

"I think this is a good compromise,💦 which doesn't mean you cannot design your fairing to have downforce. Because that is against the spirit of racing in a prototype series. So you ⛄can do whatever you want, but not so often and not with protruding and dangerous bodywork. This is the compromise.

"It is not correct to say people should not design their fairing to have an aerodynamic effect, beඣcause this is the job of the fairing. That is not what we wanted. I'm saying that because sometimes we have critics that are against everything and they say; 'you ban the wings but still they have downforce using different things'.

"Okay, but we didn't ban downforce! We have nothing against aerodynamics, we have something against too much mon𒁃ey being spent and something against it being dangerous."

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