MotoGP Jerez: Franco Morbidelli blasts “sketchy tyre pressure rules, they have no control”

Franco Morbidelli has taken aim at MotoGP officials for what he calls ‘unclear rules’ that are to do with tyre pressures.
Franco Morbidelli, Yamaha MotoGP COTA 2023
Franco Morbidelli, Yamaha MotoGP COTA 2023

Morbidelli, who has shown better form over the last 🅺two MotoGP race weekends, believes a championship should sta💛rt and end with the same rules.

The 2023 season kicked off with minimum tyres pressure of 1.9 bar on the front and 1.7 on the rear, and while those remain the numbers that must be adh♈ered to, dropping below was expected to result in penalties from round fou🔯r of the season (at Jerez this weekend) onwards.

But it is now rumoured that the intr♔oduction of tyre 🦋pressure penalties will be delayed for several more rounds.

Morbidelli believes the uncertainty of when/if penalties will be handed out is creating🎃 an unclear championship.

"That’s sketchy! That’s not clear," said the Italian. "It should🉐 be more clear. It definitely should. I don’t get too much information on that, luckily I would say because I would get even more bitter about it. It’s really not a clear situation and I don’t like unclear situations. 🐈;

"I would like to have clear rules at the moment that the championship starts, like it should be. Some things ♔are not happening like they are supposed to be. If it was me. I would do the whole championship like it started. 

"What’s the point of not penalising anybody in the beginning of the championship and then all of a sudden start to penalise and change🥂 the rules during the champ🔴ionship? 

Franco Morbidelli , Sprint Race , Grand Prix Of The Americas, 15 April
Franco Morbidelli , Sprint Race , Grand Prix Of The Americas, 15 April

"It changes the balance of the championship. It should ꧋start in a [particular] way and then finish in that way. That’s how I see it. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t invest too much time thinking about this stuff because I try to race, not to organise championships.

"But I donꦬ’t see a football match where the rules change during the match or in the World Cup, rules don’t change during the championship."

Morbidelli added: "They should have more control on this. They have no control. They don’t know if temperat🐠ures should be up or should be down. 🧜;

"Preꦓssures should be that [specific] and if you’re out, you pay the consequences and if you’re in the rꦜange then you’re good. 

"But it’s not on me to say, it should be on them. They are notཧ saying though. I do my job and they do their job. I could do better, they could do better."

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