New Michelin front tyre pressure ‘will make life easier’
Rideꦉrs welcome the revised minimum front tyre pressure of 1.8♏ bar for the 2024 MotoGP season.
It may only be changing by 0.08 bar, or 1.16 psi, but M🔯otoGP riders have given the new lower Michelin front tyre pressure a ‘warm’ welcome.
After being required to spend at least 50% of last year’s Grand Prix laps above 1.88 bar, the168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: limit has now 𓆉been reduced t🎀o 1.80 bar for 2024, a⛎lbeit over 60% of the laps. Sprints remain at 30%.
The change is aimed at avoiding some of the grip loss experienced when f꧟ront tyre temperature rises behind other bikes, with pressures of over 2.1 bar said to have occurred during last season.
“Fo🔯r me, yes [it’s enough],” Ma🌞rc Marquez said of the pressure drop. “It’s a small step, but a big step.
“It’s super difficult to control the pressure even if you are alone, or behind somebody. But in the end, if it's a safety issue, we need to adaꦛpt.
“Of course, if it's going super high pressure [you get a] lac𒊎k 🍸of performance, but if you are going low, I feel lack of performance too.
“So in the end you need to work in the correcꦍt tyre pressure [range].”
Fellow former world champion Fabio Quartararo agreed: “I think it’s quite OK, I think like Marc said, when you go too high⛎ you miss performance and also on the low side.
“Of course there are some races like Thailand, basically places where it's really hot, when you play a lot with tꦑhis front tyre [pressure] and I think 1.8 is quite𓆉 good.”
Aleix Espargaro, another vocal critic of the penalties give𝔉n out under the new real-time tyre pressure monitoring system introd꧑uced midway through last season, added:
“1.8 bar is not going to change the performa𓂃nce, but in terms🌳 of our life, it's going to be a lot easier,” said the Aprilia rider.
While a wa♔rning was given for a first offence last season followed b🌞y escalating time penalties, there has been no revised penalty system announced for 2024. The standard penalty for a technical infringement - disqualification - could therefore be enforced.
Update: A Thursday evening news story on MotoGP.com revealed: "The FIM MotoGP Stewards have also announced new, set [tyre pressure] penalties for 2024. For infringements in the Sprint it’s an eight-second time penalty, and for the Grand Prix race it’s 16 seconds."
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