Cagiva C591
1991 Australian GP
With Phil Aynsley
Cagiva’s 500cc Grand Prix lengthy efforts (which had begun in 1977) took a flip for the higher within the 1991 season with Eddie Lawson becoming a member of the workforce and a brand new 80º V4 engine changing the earlier 70º design.
1990 had ended with Cagiva’s riders Alex Barros, Randy Mamola and Ron Haslam in twelfth, 14th and fifteenth positions respectively. In just about a final ditch try to get the undertaking again on monitor the Castiglionis employed Lawson on a two yr contract, with Barros as his team-mate. Engineer Riccardo Rosa (ex-Ferrari F-1) additionally got here onboard.
The brand new engine made 169 hp at 12,000 rpm (up 15 hp at 8000 rpm from the C590), with an overrev restrict of 12,800 rpm. Programmable digital ignition was used for the primary time. The bike’s weight was proper on the category restrict at 130 kg. Chassis designer Romano Albesiano cooperated intently with Lawson to provide a brand new body.
The start of the 1991 season actually confirmed the potential of all of the low season work with Lawson ending in sixth, sixth, fifth and sixth within the first 4 races.
The fifth race was at Misano the place he scored the workforce’s first dry race podium – third place. Different firsts have been qualifying on the entrance row and main a race.
The remainder of the season noticed him take one other third (beating Kevin Schwantz at Paul Ricard), two fourths, one other fifth and sixth and an eighth. He completed the season in seventh place general.
Barros completed in thirteenth regardless of solely competing in 5 races (prime ten locations in all of them).
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