MotoGP Austria: Red Bull Ring ‘where front tyre pressure rises the most’, ‘more critical’ for Ducati?
Riders have expressed concern that the higher star🌠ting pressures needed to avoid the new risk of post-race time penalties means they will be even more susceptible to rising pressure if stuck in hot air behind other bikes.
Whe♐n pressure rises too high, tyre grip is reducꦿed.
The best way to avoid such problems is to qualify at the front, makജ🧸e a good start and then stay in ‘fresh’ air.
“Like every GP, it will be cruci🌞al to immediately have a go𒆙od pace from Friday,” said VR46’s Luca Marini.
“Qualif𝓡ying will be fundamental: Spielberg is perhaps the track where the pressure of the front tyre rises the most and the goal is to stay as far in front as 🃏possible.”
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Former factory Ducati rider Jack Miller,𝄹 now at KTM, feels some bikes are more sensitive to tyre pressureಌ than others.
“🌠For me, I definitely know from the Ducati it [tyre pressure] was more critical. I💮 don't notice it as much on the KTM,” said the Australian.
“It's a fine window because you don't want to have the thing [presꦡsure] too low because it's no good and you don't want to have the thing too high, obviously, because it's no good.
“But in terms of our bike, I ꦦknow that the Ducati functioned very well on low tyre pressure, whereas ours doesn't.
“As y🔴ou've seen in the past, the KTM is generally pretty hard on the front tyre or uses the front tyre in a different way than the other bikeꦅs.
“So having it so low doesn't really give us theꦺ benefit, let's say, of what it did on the other bike, but we'll have to wait and see how much it affects the other bikes.”
Ducati has only lost two races at the Red Bull Ring since🎃 the Austrian circuit returned to the calendar in 2016, including the extra ‘Styrian’ races added duꦉring the Covid era.
Pramac's Johann Zarco was one rider who felt his Silverstone Grand Prix was clearly꧂ comprised by the new tyre-pressure𒊎 sanctions.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquezꦛ’s injury issues.
