The MSMA system for🅠 deciding on softwa🎀re proposals for the 2016 MotoGP ECU appears to favour Honda, Yamaha and Ducati.

Input and ongoing development by t👍he factories was essential for gaining agreement on the compulsory introduction of the single elec♛tronics.

MotoGP technical director Corrado Cecchinelli and his team of Magneti-Marelli engineers, who w෴ill write the ECU software, have made clear they will only communicate with one reprꦏesentative of the Manufacturers' Association (MSMA). Not with individual manufacturers.

That means it is up to the MSMA to decide whicꦑh proposals, from the five m꧑anufacturers, are passed on for inclusion in the single software.

However when those discussions take place Suz🦂uki and Aprilia - returning to MotoGP this season - will not be able to vote. By con🌼trast any Honda, Yamaha or Ducati proposal is expected to be passed on, since any attempt to block a proposal by a rival would result in a tit-for-tat retaliation.

The system was apparently agreed by the other manufacturers before Suzuki and Aprilia were reinstated as MSMA members. The situation only applies to software pro🤪posals. Suzuki and Aprilia now have normal voting rights on other MSMA is🍸sues.

"We can make proposals. But𒆙 the three members who can vote for these things are Honda, Yamaha and Ducati. Just for software development and what goes into the software we do not have a vote. It's politics," said a representative of one of the new manufacturers, adding that they will definitely try to change the system.

Also speaking to wuqian0821.com at the final Sepang test, a senior figure at the other new manufacturer was less concerned, poi🌼nting out that the software proposals made by Honda, Yamaha and Ducati are likely to coverℱ their own requirements anyway.

A software freeze will come into force on July 1, after which Honda, Yamaha and Ducati must halt work on their own factory systems and 🃏concentrate on joint-development of the 2016 ECU. Aprilia and Suzuki are not subject to the software freeze.