Valentino Rossi had won back-to-back titles and Team Blue wanted to include its MotoGP tech in the R1. Enter the ‘09 model. The key change was the addition of a crossplane crankshaft in the ...

On straight road 10r is obviously Fast but on the corners R1 is Faster, R1 has Cross plane Engine which is why it sounds so god damn different form other typical inline 4 bikes(I love it).