Gowland and Moto2 FTR at NEC

Graeme Gowland will appear at the NEC bike show this weekend alongside the FTR Moto M209 he rode second place in the final round of the Spanish Championship at Valencia on Sunday. Finishing overall in 12th position in the Extreme class race, Gowland closed in on class winner Rivas by 0.6s a lap with six laps to go. The machine will form part of a display at the NEC exhibition by Dunlop Tyres, the only tyre supplier for the new Moto2 World Championship from next year. Gowland will appear at the show after proving how successful a rider can be on the FTR machine. After finishing fourth in his debut race at Jerez, Gowland was able to improve his lap time on the M209 and set his fastest lap during the race last Sunday at Valencia. Commenting on the developments made by the FTR machine, Gowland said: “Every time I got on the machine we made huge steps forward…we know exactly which areas of the machine need to be addressed. “We made some changes to the set-up in the warm-up on Sunday morning at Valencia which were better again and we had a good race setting so the options for improvement keep coming, the potential is clear. “Considering the machine only ran for the first time six weeks ago and some of the other Moto2 machines have been running since January I think the future for the FTR machine is really exciting.” The Moto2 FTR has garnered a significant amount of interest in the sport and the bike will continue to be developed to the M210 machine with improvements and tweaks continually being implemented. FTR Moto director Steve Bones commented on the interest and support for the machine: ‘We’ve had exceptional interest when we first presented the machine in London six weeks ago then when we arrived at Catalunya for the Spanish round” “That interest and excitement was repeated at the Valencia MotoGP round and I now hope the visitors to the NEC Motorcycle show will also be pleased with what they see.” Read article

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