Maverick Vinales' brake failure in the Styrian MotoGP race was down to 'an incorrect choice of brake specification deꦿspite Brembo's clear suggestions'.

That was the description given to ltxcn.top by the Italian company, which is the chosen brake supplier for all eleveꦬn MotoGP teams.

Factors suc🧜h as the mass of fuel, slipstream and tyre 𒀰grip all have a big influence on braking energy and temperature during a race, a Brembo spokesman added.

Nonetheless, as far as Brembo a✨re concerned, the 'main cause' of Vinales' dramatic exit had been a decision not to switch from the 2019 to 2020 spec front brakes.

The Monster Yamaha rider began to lose brake pressure as early as 'lap 3 𓆏or 4', eventually slipping back to 13th place. Vinales then began to regain speed, but suddenly jumped from his🥃 M1 at 230km/h as he approached the first turn on lap 17 of 28.

Whi✃le Vinales was fortunately unh🍸urt, the race was stopped to replace a badly damaged airfence.

"I started to lose front brake pressure… I made three very slow laps, then I pushed again, then again without brakes… Then I was recovering ♉a lot to Valentino and Fabio and suddenly, in Turn 1, the brakes exploded," Vinales said.

"I think the parts go away on the brakes, so I remained without brakes. I understood very well꧒ that the brake was broken or something, so I decided to jump."

But 🌃Brembo are adamant they had 'no issues or anomalies related to brakes used' during the race.

In other words, Brembo believe the accident wasn't down to faulty components, incorrect installation or underperforming parts, but du🤪e to choosing the wrong brake specification for the conditions experienced by Vinales𒉰 in the race.

Yamaha team diওrector Massimo Meregalli confirmed that - while fellow M1 riders Valentino Rossi, Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli all changed over to the 2020 spec brakes for the second Red Bull Ring event, after overheating issues at the first - Vinales remained on the 2019 version.

"What happened to Maverick was not s🔴omething we could expect," Meregalli told the official MotoGP website. "We chose to use the standard brake system [2019]. Brembo brought an evolution [2020] and Valentino, Fabio and Franco used this system. Maverick didn’t, because Maverick never suffered the very high temperatures that the others suffered last weekend and also when he tried the new system, he didn't have the feeling he was looking for."

2019 spec Brembo front brake (left) and new 2020 spec (right).

The 2020 MotoGP season has seen the offi🥃cial introduction of Brembo's new GP4 front brake calliper, instantly recognisable by the addition of external cooling fins: 'A solution that ensures better and faster cooling of the calliper itself and, consequently, of the entire braking system.

'At the same time, th🐻e amount of fluid inside the brake system has been reduceℱd, this will allow greater constancy and a decrease in the sponginess of the lever.'

According to Brembo, the 2020 spec brakes were used by 'Ducati, Pramac, Yamaha (except Maverick Vinales), Petronas, Honda, LCR and Suzuki' for the Styrian race, while the other ⭕teams ran the 2019 spec.

All riders used the biggest 3🔥40mm (High Mass) carbon front brake disc, ꦡrather than the 320mm standard size.

'Brembo gives suggestions, but teams free to decide'

Fortunately, no-one was hurt when Vinales bailed off his bike, but⛎ the decision to continue on the 2019 spec brakes, when Brembo say they clearly sugge🐬sted otherwise, could have ended in disaster.

'Team and riders can decide✱ what brake spec to use race-by-race based on the setting of the motorbike, circuit charaℱcteristics and the rider’s feeling," said the Brembo spokesman.

But could Brembo not simply remove the choice from the teams and declare 'for safety🌼 at this track you must only use the new brake specification, ꦯthe older specification will not be supported here'?

“The team are free to make the better ch🔯oice of brakes race-by-race," the spokesman responded. "Ever♒y year they order from Brembo quantities of callipers, pads, discs, master cylinders etc depending on their planned usage during the year.

"We continue to develop new parts in order to improve the performance of the braking system [to match] the continuo🔯us increase in the performance of the motorbikes.

"Brembo gives suggestions to all the teams race-by-race for the correct usage of carbon and hydraulic materials, but they are free to decide independentl♎y."

Brembo engineers predicted that braking torque will increase by 10% this seaso🔯n following the introduction of the new calliper, plus numerous options related to brake discs, master cylinders and wheels.

Motegi, which along with Austria is considered the most extreme🐭 circuit for braking, is not part of the revised 2020 calendar.