{"id":4235,"date":"2025-02-15T11:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:03:29","slug":"john-bottomley-500cc-racing-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"John Bottomley &#8211; GP Racing Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ducati-GP-bikes-700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ducati-GP-bikes-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ducati-GP-bikes-700-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">500cc GP Race Bikes in action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Bottomley will be giving a presentation  to the TOMCC Berkshire Branch and invited guests on<strong> Thursday 6 March 2025<\/strong>, starting at 8pm at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?page_id=430\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"430\">BCSA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his presentation he reviews the 500ccc world championship from 1947 until the introduction of the MotoGP format in 2002 and traces the winning machines and the increase in engine performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He shows how Ducati fits into this picture and picks up the academic background of the key Ducati designers and the design aspects they introduced. He concludes with a look at as much of the technical detail as he has gleaned regarding Capirossi\u2019s 2002\/3 MotoGP bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, he answers the question of why they had to put GPS on the bikes. I didn\u2019t know they had. Did you? Come along and find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bottomley will be giving a presentation to the TOMCC Berkshire Branch and invited guests on Thursday 6 March 2025, starting at 8pm at the BCSA. In his presentation he reviews the 500ccc world championship from 1947 until the introduction of the MotoGP format in 2002 and traces the winning machines and the increase in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/?p=4235\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Bottomley &#8211; GP Racing Development&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-past-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkshiretomcc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}