Some of the guys here know that I do a lot of work in Formula One, specifically with the cars themselves. Most people know that current F1 cars are so incredibly focused on aero and this trend is only going to get more emphasized going forward. From my first hand experience, the amount of aero features and devices employed on every Formula One car is astounding - and much more than I ever realized before I started developing tech for Formula One. Despite having less power and mechanical grip (tires) than the cars of the last decades, today's F1 cars lap faster than ever. It is only a matter of time before this comes to motorcycles.
Last year we started seeing winglets used in earnest in MotoGP. This is going to get more pervasive in the coming seasons. If that's the case and there's no legislative action by the FIM or whoever to stop that, it will not be long before they are regularly deployed on street superbike bodywork, especially homologation bikes and race replicas. I'm telling you: it's coming.
