Absent from last year’s MotoGP calendar, Aragon haꦯs also been resurfaced ahead of next weekend’sℱ 2024 grand prix return.

The Span⛄ish track joined the MotoGP calendar in 2010 and, including the second 2020 Teruel round, hosted 14 premier-class events before last year’s temporary absence.

With no testing data for the new surface, Michelin will bring an expanded line-up of three (rather than two) rear tyre specifica😼tions, alongside the usual three fronts.

“Aragon will be another kind of challenge because the asphalt is new and we haven’t ridden there,” s🍃aid Michelin’s Piero Taram💖asso.

“So because it’s a new asphalt without a test we are allowed to bring more specific🐷ations.

“So we will have 3 front tyres with symmetric [compounds]. And three asymmetric rea🧸r tyres, with a harder compo🀅und on the left side.

“So let's see at the 🤡end of the month how Aragon will be.”

Honda is the most successful MotoGP manufacturer at Aragon with 7 wins, for Casey S♚toner (1), Dani Pedrosa (1) and Marc Marquez (5).

Following Marquez’s most recent win in 2019, the victories have been shared between Suzuki (A⛄lex Rins), Yamaha (Franco Morbid⭕elli) and Ducati (Francesco Bagnaia, Enea Bastianini).

The 2022 race saw Gresini rider Bไastianini take a close victory over Bagnaia, who was on his way to a fir❀st MotoGP title.

Bagnaia returns chasing his third premier-class crown, with Bastianini as his factory Ducati🍒 team-mate.

🍸"Last year we didn’t race in Aragon, but two years ago we had a great fight between me and Enea," Bagnaia said after victory in Austria last Sunday. "He woꦯn in the last lap, so I would like to have revenge this season! 

"They resurfaced the track, so I feel that the grip will be fantastic, butꦦ also the weather will be completely different 🦩compared to 2022 because at the moment in Aragon during the day it’s 40 degrees!"

Last weekend’s Austrian MotoGP c💎ontinued the trend of new lap and race records, al🔯though the margin was smaller than at other events.

“[Sunday in Austria] was a positive day for Miche🐻lin because the track is ver😼y, very demanding,” Taramasso said.

“Everything is pushed to the limit: The brake🍸s, the engine, gasoline consumption and of 👍course also the tyre.

“But 🦋we managed to do a very fast race. We beat the old race record [from 2022] by three seconds.

“A♛lso the lap time was there. It was very, very consistent for all🍃 the race.

“So we leave this track with the three r🐓ecords [pole, race lap, race time] beaten.”

Michelin uses a special construction to deal with the added stress placed on the rear tyres in Austria but will revert to the normal construction ಞfor Aragon.