ELECTRONICS

Motec supply the control ECU in BSB, although the loom is made by a Scottish firm. The team get constant updates every weekend and throughout the weekend just to make the package better, including refining something new for this year – an auto-blipper. They have a lot of work on just to cope with all the manufacturers in the championship.

Data is download after every session and the team try to make the delivery as rideable and as user-friendly as possible. “We need the pace at the start of the race and the end when we are preserving tyres. Normally, 4th, 5th and 6th gears, the riders are using 100% throttle and have full power, but if we give the rider 100% exiting Barn here at Cadwell, it’ll just be on its back wheel and not driving because they’re feathering the throttle. We pull it all down so he doesn’t have to think about it. He just keeps it pinned.” The team tried running a 1:1 throttle at Cadwell but it was too much.