As in the case of British Superbikes, MotoGP is heading down the austerity path with more regulations checked and stamped by the FIM which will see engine development frozen in 2014 and price caps imposed one year later.

Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has already made available a spec-ECU, built by Magneti Marelli, which will be taken up by a lot of the CRT teams but the engine freeze announced earlier in the year is now being enforced.

There will now be restrictions on electronics, induction and exhaust systems, plus the bore and stroke of the motors is also frozen for the next three years. Factories can, however, homologate different specs of engine for a season, so you wonder how much this will save in the long run…

Expensive chassis parts like suspension and brakes will be subject to a price cap in 2015 so companies will not be able to charge the moon for a set of forks that only two teams can afford while the rest are left with much lower-spec stuff to use.