Riders 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 MotoGP riders have given the new lower Michelin front tyre pressure a ‘warm’ welcome.The change is aimed at avoiding some of the grip loss experienced when front tyre temperature rises behind other bikes, with pressures of over 2.1 bar said to have occurred during last season.For me, yes ,” Marc Marquez said of the pressure drop. “It’s a small step, but a big step.
“Of course, if it's going super high pressure lack of performance, but if you are going low, I feel lack of performance too.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. Aleix Espargaro, another vocal critic of the penalties given out under the new real-time tyre pressure monitoring system introduced midway through last season, added:
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