At the conclusion of Sunday's German MotoGP race Honda, Yamaha and Ducati handed over the final sample of their Factory ECU software. This was to enable policing of a software development freeze, which was requested by the manufacturers themselves as they now switch attention to sharing ideas for the 2016 single ECU system. This ECU will be based on the current Open class system and be jointly developed by the three manufacturers racing in 2014 (when the single ECU was agreed), Dorna and Magneti Marelli. “To speak openly the manufacturers have to freeze their own proprietary software so that they cannot steal the secrets of each other and use them on their own systems this season,”...
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