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some small modifications or<br />
to produce small parts but<br />
nothing that has a big function<br />
because reliability is<br />
obviously very important. It<br />
is similar with carbon parts;<br />
at the beginning of the season<br />
we will order X amount of<br />
fairings and seats and so on<br />
and especially in our case we<br />
are changing sponsors every<br />
weekend sometimes so we<br />
need a big amount for rotation<br />
of painting and stickers.<br />
They allow us to repair and<br />
repaint but we cannot reproduce<br />
any carbon parts, which<br />
is fine because it is their bike.<br />
We had a good guy working<br />
on the repair and repainting<br />
and if there is just a scratch<br />
then it can be fixed. For a<br />
satellite team like us that is<br />
really good. A factory team<br />
like Repsol will just replace<br />
instead of repair. You can<br />
imagine having two riders that<br />
might crash more than 20 or<br />
30 times during a season so it<br />
can be a fortune because the<br />
carbon pieces from Japan are<br />
really high quality and therefore<br />
expensive.<br />
Can you give an idea of<br />
quantity?<br />
I would say each rider has<br />
between 8-10 fairings and for<br />
the seat maybe 5-6 sets. Then<br />
similar for front fender, rear<br />
fender…There is a lot of rotation.<br />
As you know Taka is using<br />
Cal’s 2018 bike so we are<br />
re-using parts and we keep<br />
organised with what we have<br />
and what we can use. Each<br />
part has a life cycle and you<br />
don’t want to save 500 euros<br />
if it then means you have an<br />
issue on a race weekend. You<br />
have to balance the worth of<br />
things and you don’t want to<br />
take any chances. If you have<br />
a scratch on top of a triple<br />
clamp that is not bent or<br />
damaged then it won’t affect<br />
performance but a scratch on<br />
a wire loom? You don’t know<br />
what has happened inside and<br />
if a cable has been affected.<br />
How do you request things<br />
from HRC? Do they have<br />
some online tool?<br />
<strong>No</strong>, I need to make an official<br />
order by email to just one<br />
contact person at HRC. It’s<br />
a good system. <strong>No</strong>rmally it<br />
arrives two weeks later or if it<br />
needs to be produced then it<br />
can take six weeks.<br />
Is the system all-efficient?<br />
Can it come the next day?<br />
First of all in an emergency<br />
Repsol will help us. Then it<br />
depends on the situation.<br />
DELIVERING A MotoGP BIKE
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