Motourage

FTR MOTO will display its British-built Moto2 World Championship prototype machine on the Dunlop stand at the Carole Nash International Motorcycle and Scooter Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England from this Friday, November 27.

The M209 – complete with a Joe Darcey Honda Team 600cc supersport specification motor – is fresh from second place in the final round of the Spanish Championship at Valencia on Sunday and is part of the display offered by Dunlop Tires, the single tire supplier to the new Moto2 World Championship from 2010.

The FTR MOTO M209 will race in the Moto2 MotoGP support series in 2010

With British rider Graeme Gowland aboard the machine has taken fourth and second places in the final two rounds of the CEV Buckler Spanish Championship, at Jerez and Valencia respectively.

“Dunlop has been extremely helpful during the planning, design, preparation and test stages of the M209 and I’m really pleased we can add the FTR prototype Moto2 machine to the Dunlop display at the NEC show,” said FTR Moto director Steve Bones.

Bones continued: “We’ve had exceptional interest when we first presented the machine in London six weeks ago then when we arrived at Catalunya for the Spanish round. That interest and excitement was repeated at the Valencia MotoGP round and I now hope the visitors to the NEC Motorcycle show will also be pleased with what they see.”

The show attracted more than 134,000 visitors in 2008 and takes place from Friday November 27 to Sunday December 6, from 10.00am to 6.00pm each day. The FTR M209 on the Dunlop Tires exhibition area is in hall 3a and stand number R8.