October 2009, the Spanish company Inmotec Consultora Técnica announces the details of its MotoGP project with a view to the World Championship in 2010. Behind the 800cc prototype Inmotec GPI 10 designed in Pamplona in the north of Spain by engineers and designers led by Oscar Gorría hides a 100% Akira Technologies engine designed and manufactured in Bayonne.
The French engineering company led by Sylvain Loumé has undeniable know-how in multiple fields, including aeronautics and motorcycle racing where she made herself known by working on the electronics of the cylinder heads of Kawasaki engines. 15 years later, and although the Akashi factory has not communicated on the subject, a small part of Akira's know-how has extended to the official ZX-10RR of Jonathan Rea et Alex
Lowes in the Superbike World Championship, whose electronics and engines gave off, to say the least, a very strong South-West scent…
In any case, the Bayonne engineers then produced a 798cc 80° V4 that could turn at 19,000 rpm and modestly deliver 215 horsepower after being compressed to 15.8. The weight of the jewel managed by Bosch electronics did not exceed 21 kilos with its gearbox, and if its 82 mm bore exceeds the current limit by a small millimeter, we would have liked to see it in a 1000cc version at 90° to match current tastes…
Unfortunately, the Spanish Inmotec adventure fizzled out in the face of this very/too ambitious project (it was still a matter of taking on the world's largest manufacturers!) and, after a few runs, the engine returned to Bayonne without participating at the slightest stroke.
Note also that this is not the only attempt by Akira Technologies to do more than flirt with MotoGP, since the Basque company then participated fully in the Avintia Kawasaki adventure with Hector Barbera et
Mike Di Meglio in 2014, then created a chassis for the Kawasaki engine, tested by Dominique Aegerter at Jerez in 2015.
Not to mention an older project with partners that hit the headlines this year, which we will perhaps discuss soon…
That doesn't stop us from being amazed by detailing its insides in the photos published below.
Find here the forgotten ones of MotoGP,Aprilia with its 3-cylinder Cube (see here) since 2002, Proton (see here), WCM (see here) in 2003, Moriwaki in 2004 (see here) Then Sauber Petronas… never (see here)but also the Paton in 2001 (see here) and the Saber V4 from the same year, from the 500cc 2-stroke era (see here).
