MotoGP rear tyre choice reduced to two options for each 2023 event
Michelin 🍎currently selects three different rear tyre options – a soft, medium and hard - for use at each MotoGP race weekend.
Each rider then receives a total of 12 rear tyres: a maximum of six of the soft specification, four of the medium and three of th🦩e hard.
Michelin also sometimes offers an extra (fourth) tyre option in the case of a new circuit or untested track surf💮ace.
A Grand Prix Commission statement explained that in order to ‘decrease the number of tyres that are produced and transported by Michelin but ultimately not us🍰ed’ a ‘survey was conducted amongst all MotoGP class teams in order to determine future tyre allocations’.
The feedback from the teams was ‘overwhelmingly’ in favour of having just two♐ rear slick specifications at each event from 2023.
Michelin will decide which two specifications are brought to each round next sꦫeason - soft and medium, medium and hard, or soft and hard – with the 12-tyre total then being divided as follows:
7 soft + 5 medium
or
7 medium + 5 hard
or
7 soft + 5 hard
All three of the current rear tyre optionsꦅ could be used in Sunday's Catalunya MotoGP race.
Peter has been in the paddoc🧔k for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and 🍨Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
