FTR LAUNCHES MOTO3 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MACHINE THE FTR Moto challenger for the new Moto3 World Championship in 2012 will make its track debut later this month as interest in the new machine continues to grow. The M311 has been produced specifically for the HRC-developed, single-cylinder four-stroke motor which will be supplied to the World Championship teams and serviced by Geo Technology of Switzerland. Armed with the knowledge from three years of Moto2 chassis development, FTR Moto’s Steve Bones believes the Moto3 machine will be a front-runner in what is certain to be a highly competitive series, he said: “We have learnt a lot in the last two years of the Moto2 World Championship and in the previous year’s Spanish Championship races. “The M311 prototype features a conventional design to assist with the introduction of the machine into the inaugural year of the World Championship and is obviously produced in this manner with development firmly in mind. “We’ve also learnt a lot in the last 12 months with the CFD programme and that has helped us react and develop machinery much faster than previous methods of analysis.” Orders for the machine have already been taken and Bones expects, as with its race-winning Moto2 machinery, that the FTR Moto3 machine will prove popular. He added: “We estimate that, from the interest shown in the Moto3 project, that we would expect to have six or eight FTR riders in the 2012 Championship.”