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GP LUBRICATION<br />
Yayfor us!<br />
Things are working out pretty well…<br />
Not only has our GP contract been renewed for the<br />
next three years, but as an example wedidn’t have<br />
one single engine malfunction throughout Jerez<br />
and Austin. The teams and riders are incredibly<br />
happy with the product and they work well within<br />
the machines no matter what the conditions. That’s<br />
arewarding feeling for us and all the effort we put<br />
into our products.<br />
We also supply to some of the actual<br />
MotoGP class...<br />
It takes alot to keep avery powerful engine<br />
maintained correctly after all, and the more we<br />
learn byworking with these fantastic prototype<br />
machines. They push us to our limits, which aids<br />
development no end and makes us produce much<br />
higher quality products.<br />
MotoGP bikes are awhole different level,<br />
meaning the oil has to be fully synthetic and<br />
0W-10; meaning itisalmost like water! It is purely<br />
for gaining the most out of the best engines in the<br />
world, with the least amount of friction within the<br />
metal parts atwork.<br />
But if we can perform to the high standards<br />
we do with such high demands, itmakes life a<br />
whole lot easier when it comes toproducing the<br />
very best oils for more conventional road and<br />
track motorcycles.<br />
It’s quite special...<br />
In actual fact, every MotoGP machine needs an oil<br />
change after every session –orabout every 45<br />
minutes. Soimagine being onaregular trackday<br />
and having tochange oil that often. It seems like<br />
alot of work, but it’s worth it for the end result.<br />
Youjust need alot of mechanics on your team.<br />
And it isn’t cheap…<br />
As you can imagine, owning aMotoGP bike isn’t<br />
cheap, and running one isn’t either! Alitre ofthe<br />
MotoGP spec oil will probably come in at about €75<br />
–which is about £65. Considering most sessions at<br />
GP last around 45 minutes, that means teams get<br />
through alot of oil.<br />
But it’s crucial tothem. The oil is there tolook<br />
after the motor, and ifits condition isn’t perfect it<br />
can’t look after the motor properly. Asexpensive<br />
as it is to change the oil, it’s awhole lot more<br />
expensive torebuild an engine.<br />
The oil has to be conditioned properly…<br />
Not only does it need to be constantly changed and<br />
monitored, but italso needs to be warmed up<br />
correctly unlike the smaller capacity machines.<br />
This is why you see the bikes out in pitlane the<br />
morning of arace for example; at least 15minutes<br />
is needed togain the correct working temperature.<br />
Youcouldn’t use it on your road bike. It would be<br />
incredibly impractical –especially if your engine<br />
wasn’t completely perfect to begin with. Not only<br />
that, but it would also be abit useless unless<br />
pushed to the very limits.<br />
That’s what our GP oil isdesigned for; to extract<br />
the highest level ofperformance from amotor. It<br />
would beoverkill for the roads, and it wouldn’t be<br />
all that great having to warm it up properly either.<br />
We have to have alot of oil ready to go...<br />
If you think that wehave around 50 riders in<br />
Moto2, Moto3, and MotoGP, you can soon<br />
appreciate the demands placed on us to the volume<br />
of oil weneed tosupply. It’s alot for just asingle<br />
round, let alone tosupported the teams and riders<br />
across all 18rounds on the calendar. Weeasily get<br />
through 3,000 litres per season, with awhole load<br />
more set aside for off-season testing too.<br />
That’s alot of oil, alot of oil changes and alot<br />
of development! It’s not easy but if it makes us<br />
the best, then it is definitely worth it.<br />
LIQUIMOLY… WHAT YOUSHOULDKNOW<br />
Based in Germany,Liqui Moly are one of the most advanced engine oil manufacturers<br />
in the entire world. they’re the official supplier to the Moto2 and Moto3 Grand<br />
Prix championships and support around 50 teams in the GPpaddock. But they<br />
are fundamentally asupplier toroad going vehicles, with over 4,000 highly<br />
advanced products within an impressive range,manufacturing everything from<br />
additives to lubricants and selling them all around the world. Established in<br />
1957, the expertise of Liqui Moly has been finely honed over the ages to a<br />
standard of perfection that’s mirrored byfew.This might sound like sales jargon,<br />
but it’s true.Why else would they besopopular all across the globe. If you’re in the<br />
market for oils,additives or lubes, check out their website: www.liqui-moly.com<br />
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