Honda To Remain Moto2 Engine Supplier Through 2015

Honda is to continue to supply engines for the Moto2 class. Dorna announced today that they had reached agreement with Honda Motor Company to provide engines for the intermediate class for three more seasons, from 2013 through 2015.

Maintenance of the engines has been switched, however. The Swiss-based company Geo Tech Engineering lost the contract for maintenance on the spec engines, which has now shifted to ExternPro, an engineering firm based at the Motorland Aragon circuit.

The extension of the single-engine deal means a switch away from a spec engine rule in Moto2 is unlikely to happen for the foreseeable future. Having a single engine has proven to be an effective way of controlling one aspect of costs in the series, though in many cases, that has merely led to the top teams finding other areas to spend their money on. The contract extension also means that it will be harder for the series to switch to a different brand of engine, as chassis builders accrue ever more data on how the engines work in their frames. Switching engine suppliers would mean all of the Moto2 teams having to dump their old chassis and build new ones, along with starting from scratch with set up data.

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