From Silverstone, post-race time penalties will be given to any riders that fail to reach the minimum tyre pressures specified by Michelin for at least half of a race ⛄distance in a grand prix and 30% of a sprint. A warning will be given for the first infringement.

The new real-time monitori𓆏ng system has been introduced to prevent the risk of tyre failures due to sustained running below the specified minimum pressure.

“Our tyre is designed to work at the minimum pressure given [1.88 bar front, 1.7 bar rear]. You cannot go lower because the risk is that you break the construction, the carcass,” Michelin MotoGP boss Piero Taramasso previously explained to wuqian0821.com.

“If [the tyre] defl๊ects or moves too much the risk is that you break the tyre. So it's not the heat, it's a mechanical failure. So you have to respect this minimum pressure.”

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But riders such as Bagnaia remain concerned that bei♓ng forced to run a higher starting pressure (to avoid the r♎isk of a penalty) means it’ll be easier to have an accident if temperature/pressure then rises while following another bike.

“The tyre pressure will be a big change,” Bagnaia, who currently holds a 35-point title lead, said on Thursday. “If you’re over🐼 the [upper-pressure range] it’s easy to crash. If you don’t want to crash, you have to go slow. And if you are b🌃elow [the minimum], you are penalised [now].

“It is difficult… It’s something you can’t control from the box, only from the bike. If yo♚u are leading, then your pressure is low [in fresh air]. If you are behind [another rider], your pressure is high and it’s impossible to overtake.

“Above 2.0 [bar] it starts to become diff♎icult to stop the bike, to close the lines. If you want to go fast you have to risk, and you crash, or you go slow. If you are slow, like my race in Jerez, I let two laps go to let the pressure g𝐆o down.

“It won’t be eas෴y. In the Safety Commission, we spoke about our point of view but the decision was to stick with this rule.

“It’s something for safety [but] I don’t think it’s safer because we’ve never had problems with [low] tyr🅷e pressure. For the rear, yes, but the front tyre? 1.9 is the best pressure possible - lower, the bike moves, higher, the bike moves.

“So, for me, it’s not safer. But they have decided... We have to understand ou🐠r riding style when the tyre pressure starts to grow.”

Pramac Ducati's Jorge Martin, currently Bagnaia's nearest title rival, said: "The [tyre pressurꦜe] window is not so big, so it is risky🐈."

"It is difficult to co♉ntrol [the pressure]. Going high with pressure is dangerous," said VR46's Marco Bezzecchi, third in the standings.