MZ ROC 500

[franco pizzagalli]

It is the year 1999, the most interesting, which is described below.

In summary, 1998 was a year of transition with little result.

1999, evidence of the potential of MuZ is made, it will be his best and unfortunately his last year.

  The members of the team Biland MuZ Weber-GP1

    Drivers: Jurgen Van den Goorbergh, Luca Cadalora, Noriyasu Numata (replacement), Simon Crafar (replacement), Bernard Garcia (replacement)

     Anthony Gobert (replacement)

    Team Leaders: Andy Wuthrich, Thierry Feuz

     

    the former champion sidecar Rolf Biland took over the reins of the team, will be the team Biland GP1.

    The Muz also included sponsorship of the German Weber, engine block manufacturer.

however it will not be the only changes. Disappointed by the frame of the bike, the team continues the association with ROC.

The new chassis was designed by former test pilot Eskil Suter and manufactured by the British company FABTECH.

It will be a year of ups and downs for Muz.

Cadalora not keep its promises, it difficult to pilot character will jump 2 races, the Japanese GP by demotivation. The cause is focusing difficult from the motorcycle.

Noriyasu Numata (JPN) inherits the bike and qualified well in the last second, he finished 13th in the race, very honorable given the conditions.

Cadalora back to the 3rd race. Thanks to the work of the team and from that date the MuZ is a clear improvement.

Both drivers are regularly qualified in the top 10, and at the GP of Catalunya, van den Goorbergh gave the MuZ his first pole position,

with 0.3 seconds better than some of Max Biaggi.

He later remade one second pole, this time in Brno, just ahead of Alex Crivillé.

Moreover, Cadalora, is third in qualifying. But they could achieve this success in the race. The best finish 8th.

While Van den Goorbergh keeps morale with his success skills, Cadalora was clearly suffering from a severe lack of motivation.

He again skipped a race - Donington - and was replaced by Simon Crafar (NZ) who finished 10th.

Cadalora returns for the German GP, ​​but will be the last time. He was then replaced by Bernard Garcia (SPA) for two races

which in turn was replaced by Anthony Gobert (AUS) for the last four races.

Gobert and Van den Goorbergh have qualified in the top 10 in the penultimate round, the Brazilian Grand Prix,

but again, no driver can not reproduce the rhythm of qualifications on the day of the race.

The Weber Muz-end, like last year, 5th Championship, but with a much more credible score of 64 pts instead of 11pts.

The team had reached 6 dan ten rankings, 2 poles and 2 lap records.

The bike has really revealed impressive top speed potential, even compared to the Honda motorcycle factory.

The MuZ was even the most powerful motorcycle, but the management of this power (brutal) could not sustain a comparison with the flexibility of Honda,

which, of course, made it difficult to drive.

The team had hoped Cadalora proved to be the runner development, established and experienced, they needed,

but the on-off relationship with the team Cadalora and punctual replacement has not really helped the development and profile of the MuZ.

Because of financial pressures, and no sponsor for next season, the team continues Muz GP at the end of 1999.

Motorcycles, themselves, have again been on the grid in 2001 under the name "500 Pulse".



11 years later, analyzing the documents of this MuZ, it is clear that this bike has strongly influance the development of Japanese motorcycle races.

Here are two good example.

The MuZ has no alternator, seen the limited duration of the race a single well battery charged enough to make the GP.

This results in a gain of weight and reliability.

The engine, V4, had a crankshaft bearings 3 and not 5 steps as the Honda engine.

This engine is very small in comparison engine Yamaha, Suzuki and Honda.

Google translate.

bye

[BOBR6 84]

Cheers franco 

[Napalm Nick]

Hey Franco don't forget to turn on the smoke for the Beta 8 version !

It is nice to ride and look at! Hopefully the Beta 8 changes will make all these bikes corner better on tracks with elevation changes.

And hopefully it will not be too much work to get all these MOD bikes back in post-B8.

Thanks.

[franco pizzagalli]

Hello Napalm Nick,

I have not understand, what is the smoke ?, what is beta 8 ?

thank for your explications.
A+

[Napalm Nick]

Hi Franco!

Smoke/fume/rauchen/fumo/fum - From the exhaust like you see here at start  (:

https://www.youtube.com/v/3SbIb5rJShg

Beta 8 - the new version of GPBikes that will be released 'soon' 

http://forum.piboso.com/index.php?topic=2853.0

[franco pizzagalli]

i don't have beta8

[Napalm Nick]

Hmmm no-one does yet lol.

Smoke already available since Beta 7 

[Hawk]

Lol.... Looks like you have some dodgy oil mix there Nick! Hehe. 

Hawk
PS: Is that default bike or the GPB-Italia version?

[Napalm Nick]

Hmm I can't remember what I chose to be honest. I think it was the ITA but the excess smoke tweak will work the same as the default because the smoke is an effect change not bike related. The TV cam style replays hardly show any smoke though. I was hoping the recent 125cc championship grid line-ups at the start would be smog bound on the replays but there is hardly a guff. lol. Hence my Beta 8 post.

[franco pizzagalli]

how to activate the smoke

[h106frp]

its in gfx.cfg under the 3P chassis section

   exhaust
   {
      num_pipes = 2
      pipe0
      {
         pos
         {
            x = 0
            y = 0.9
            z = -1.1
         }
         dir
         {
            x = 0
            y = 0
            z = -1
         }
      }
      pipe1
      {
         pos
         {
            x = 0.17
            y = 0.59
            z = -0.93
         }
         dir
         {
            x = 0
            y = 0.5
            z = -1
         }
      }

      smoke
      {
         top_rpm = 2500
         max_rpm = 4000
      }

[Napalm Nick]

Thanks H.

4 pipes! Needs to have all 4! LOL!

[franco pizzagalli]

thank you that's nice

[franco pizzagalli]

Hello,
Can someone explain to me what is the difference between GP7 and GP8,
my models no longer work on GP8.

I'd like to do for the realease GP8.

thank you in advance.

[doubledragoncc]

Hi Franco great to hear your doing this. Manu has done a demo on his Ducati GP15 from 7 ro 8 so he is probably the best person to contact about it bro.

Cant wait to ride your bikes in beta8, it is sooooo much better.

DD