New Michelin front tyre pressure ‘will make life easier’
Riders welcome the revised minimum fron𒁃t tyre pressure of 1.8 bar for the 2024 M🀅otoGP season.
It may only be changing by 0.08 bar, or๊ 1.16 psi, but MotoGP riders have given the new lower Michelin front tyre pꦡressure 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 🍸been reduced to 1.80 bar for 2024, albeit over 60% of the laps. S🦩prints remain at 30%.
The change is aimed at avoiding some of the grip lo🍎ss experienced when front tyre temperature rises behind other bikes, with pressures of over 2.1 ba♊r said to have occurred during last season.
“For me, yes [it’s e♏nough],” Marc Marquez said of the pressure drop. “It’s a small step, but a big step.
“It’s super difficult ൩to control the pressure eꦜven if you are alone, or behind somebody. But in the end, if it's a safety issue, we need to adapt.
“Of cওourse, if it's going super high pressure [yꩲou get a] lack of performance, but if you are going low, I feel lack of performance too.
“So in the end you need to work in the correct tyre pressure [range].💖”
Fellow former world champion Fabio Quartar෴aro agreed: “I think it’s quite OK, I think like Marc said, when you go too high you miss performanc♈e 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 this front tyre🐼 [pressure] and I⛄ think 1.8 is quite good.”
Aleix Espargaro, another vocal critic of the penalties given out under the new real-time tyre 𝕴pressure monitoring system introduced midway through last season, added:
“1.8 bar is not going to change the performance, but🌄 in terms of our life,༺ it's going to be a lot easier,” said the Aprilia rider.
While a warning was given for a first offe🍌nce last season followed by escalating time penalties, there has been no revised penalty system announced for 2024. The standard penalty for a technical infrin✅gement - 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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