The indispensable winglets serve in particular to achieve the best possible contact of the wheels with the road – especially when accelerating and at high speeds. Wheelies are absolutely undesirable from a driving dynamics point of view, as the driving power
in this driving situation is not converted 100 per cent into propulsion, but also to a considerable percentage into the rising of the front end of the motorcycle. Accordingly, the traction control kicks in to prevent a wheelie and thus reduces the driving power. Valuable tenths of a second are lost in the process.
The additional wheel load on the front wheel counteracts the wheelie tendency during acceleration, the traction control regulates less, thus more driving power is converted into acceleration and the rider achieves a faster lap time. There is also more contact pressure on the front wheel for even more agile handling, as well as more stability in corners at higher speeds.