Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner says that Formula One-style simulators would never work in MotoGP because there is no way they can replicate the way body movement affects how bikes steer.

The Australian, who visited the Red Bull F1 factory in Oxfordshire recently, says that although the blue riband single-seater series is more technically advanced than MotoGP, the cornering variables are a lot less to deal with.

“Simulators would never work unfortunately but it'd be good fun. There's no way you can simulate what a bike does, how it feels or rides. All the variables make it near-on impossible. With cars, they only have so many boundaries to work with because the drivers are strapped in and they work a lot with G-force levels," said Stoner.

"There are a lot of big differences, like downforce, they can take from the data and improve. With bikes, you can take all the data you want but it's the rider's voice and what they want that makes the decision. F1 team and manufacturers have tried to make MotoGP bikes and can't because they don't understand the physics of it. They can't understand you just can't build the perfect bike.

"Both are their own forms of racing. F1 is so much more technically advanced than motorcycling. There is strategy in Formula One that we just can't have in MotoGP. For us it's a straight-out slog to the end of the race but with them there are a lot of setup changes even in the race.”