Friday, August 18, 2017

Honda manned up, and quietly mentioned that it was the bikes fault why McGuiness crashed at the 2017 TT

Honda did eventually confirm that John himself had quickly fed back to the team that the throttle had either stuck or opened unexpectedly.

After the rather loud explosion of rebutted ‘Guy Martin retirement’ news released by MCN, it might raise the odd skeptical eyebrow that it was also MCN that announced – just hours later – the official confirmation from Honda that it was an error with their bike which caused John to crash.

Honda Team Manager, Jonny Twelvetrees released today in a statement that after having extracted and reviewed the data from the ECU on McGuinness bike, they can now confirm that it was a setting on the ECU race kit software that resulted in the throttle, unexpectedly, blipping.

Speaking about the incident, Twelvetrees had this to say,

“Although at the time there was a long delay in getting the data from John’s bike due to the ECU being damaged – the ECU had to be sent all the way to the supplier in China to extract the data from it – we put in a countermeasure of a new spec of ECU for the TT to ensure the problem wouldn’t happen again.

http://www.motofire.com/2017/07/sport/honda-quietly-release-details-of-fireblade-failure-in-mcguinness-crash/

McGuinness has been diagnosed with a compound fracture to the bottom of this right leg Tibia and Fibula, and four broken vertebrae and three broken ribs in the accident at the NW200

http://www.motofire.com/2017/05/sport/honda-make-official-statement-john-mcguinness-guy-martin-nw200-tt/

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