MotoGP riders spinning th𒉰e rear tyre d🍃uring practice starts has been a frequent sight this season.

Rather than simply overestima🃏ting the grip on a dirty track, the🍷 link between start wheelspin and front holeshot devices was confirmed at the recent Thai Grand Prix.

After a burnout during his Friday practice start, KTM’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller said:

“We just wanted to try the ‘110’ꦜ [holeshot] device. I'm not a big fan of the 110 device honestly, as soon as you put the bike down that low on the front the rear starts spinning almost immediately,” Miller explained.

ꦓBuriram also saw the first wet grand prix of the season, when some riders opted not to activate the front device at all, in the hope of getting more initial grip from the 💦rear.

“I was without the front device at the start, because the team said to me it’s better you don’t put it, because you can spin with the front device,” Ducati’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini said. “But in the end, the riders with th🎃e front device on were more competitive at the start.”

Low and Lower: The GP23 (Bezzecchi) starts visibly higher than the factory GP24s ahead of him on the Buriram grid.

In high-grip conditions, the performance limit during a MotoGP start is the amount of wheelie, henc𝐆e dropping the bike as low as possible (front and rear) is beneficial.

The differences in lowering ability depend not only on the brand but also the bike spec, with the facto🌼ry GP24 Ducatis having a visibly lower starting system than the older GP23s.

But when grip levels are reduced due to a dirty track or wet surface, the balance switches from controlling wheelies to wheelspin. Eℱspecially with MotoGP bikes now dropping so low, reducing weight transfer onto the rear.

Jack Miller: "We have four options"

Last Friday at Sepang, Miller confiꦿrmed that KTM has𒈔 multiple lengths of compression for its front holeshot device, to suit different grip levels.

“It’s to do with the front end, obviously with the front start device. So we are just playing with different stroke lengths,” Miller said of the wheelspin seen by ri♊ders during practice starts.

"We have four options, I think: A 110, 1ꦅ00, 90 and then an 80 and it is just a matter of꧂ understanding what’s going to be working.

“Obvioꦓusly in high-grip conditions you jam the thing down like a dra🐬g racer.

“But in lower grip conditio🍌ns, you kinda want to play wi𓆏th a little bit more weight on the rear, so you go back to say the 80 or the 90.

“It’s just understanding what’s working at that track, by picking the dirties꧋t spot on the grid and seeing what you can get away with!”

That balancing act between front drop and wheelspin probably also explains why Ducati title leaders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia have struggled with poor practice starts - but usually perfect their launchꦓes by race ti🦂me.

At Sepang, Miller also revealed that he had received a modification to his rear ride-height device, deployed on 𒁏entry to the long straights.

“We had an update just in the clicks in the ride-height device this weekend, something we asked for at Phillip Island last year, so we got an update with two races to go,” said Miller, who later had a lucky escape when his helmet tangled with Fabio Quartararo’s rear wheel at Tur♛n 2 of Sunday’s race.

“I🐻൲t’s just to be able to play with the pace a little bit more, try to slow the ride-height device down to help us not overload the tyre on exit.

“It feels really good coming onto both of the straights. We are not getting a massive hit that is turning into pumping or spin, so that’s definitely been a positiv💫e.”

Brad Binder: "You’re cutting half-a-second from 0-100km/h"

All starting (holeshot) and ride-height devices will be banned under the new technical rules fo♕r 2027.

“I’ll definitely miss them at the start,” Miller’s team-mate Brad Binder said in an interview with mahbx.com.

“They honestly turn [the bikes] into dragsters. The realit𒊎y is they are so low that everything is almost scraping [the ground]. And you can use so much more power now⛎.

“If we look back to when we used to launch without the devic👍es, and with them, in three seconds you’re cutting half-a-second from 0-100km/h. It’s crazy! The amount we’ve gone forward because of them is insane.

“But if [removing them] is ✤the same for everybody, it doesn’t change too much.”