MotoGP’s new tyre pressure system starts final testing at Mugello
If all goes to plan, penalties♉ for breaching the minimum pressures specified by Michelin will ‘probably’ begin 🧸after the summer break, at Silverstone.
“From my understanding, the system, starting in Mugello, is working,” Michelin’s MotoGP boss Piero Taramasso told mahbx.com in Italy. “All the software, sensors, algorithms, everythinꦦg should now be working 10🍌0%.
“So now we will have two or three races of testing in real-time: Mugello, Sachsenring and maybe Assen. And then probably after the summe𒆙r break they will start with the official implantation.”
The ♛initial target had been to allow manufacturers to gather data using the new 'unified' real-time s🌳ensors during the opening three rounds of this season, then introduce penalties from round four at Jerez.
“It ൩was a little bit delayed because technically it’s quite a complicated system. But honestly, they did a very, very good job. Dorna’s timekeeping did an amazing job. Also Magneti Marelli with the software,” Taramasso explained.
“Dorna, Michelin and ဣ;the teams all wanted this [real time] system just to be sure, for equality, that everybody respects the same [tyre pressure] values. It’s also a safety issue, so it’s very important.
“This type of [real-time pressure monitoring] system is working for Moto2 and MotoE already.🍎 They also have the same system in car racing. So it’s normal that MotoGP, the pinnacle of motorcycle racing, uses it also.
“We were not able to do it before, in past seasons, because teams were using different sen🦋sors.
“This new system will be more accurate and automated than [using tyre gauges]. Also, the minimum pressures that we specify for safety are working pressures🍸. Meaning when the bikes are at speed on the tr♍ack.”
The minimum pressures set by Michelin a🍎re 1.9 bar for the front and 1.7 bar for the rear.
Because tyre pressure constantly varies when on track, riders will only be penaꦅlised if their front or rear tyre pressure fails to reach these minimum pꦕressures for at least 50% of a race distance.
A similar percentage will also be requ🐬ired to avoid the cancellation of a fast lap in practice or qualifying.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Va🗹lentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
