It is hoped that the "new techꦡnology" compounds, due to be paired with the all-new (and bigger) front tyre construction for 2025, will help to mitigate some of the overheating and pressure rise currently experienced when following ot🥀her bikes.

Soft and medium 2024 compounds were on o🎀ffer at the Valencia test last week, alongside the ra♐ce weekend allocation.

“It was the first day of the 2024 season,” 🦋said Michelin's MotoGP boss Piero Taramasso.

“But track conditions were n🍒ot very nice. The morning was cold with wind, the afternoon a little bit better but still not perfect. Anyway, the grip level was no♚t bad. Just the temperature was low.

“All the riders had the same tyre allocation as the race,🦩 so they had a reference, then on▨ top of that we proposed three new fronts.

“🐻Two of the fronts were n♊ew compounds for the 2024 season, a soft and medium compound. The third was the 2025 front.

“For the new [2024] compounds, we had some good results. 11 riders tried the soft🐼 front and everybody liked it.

“They found it the same or better than the older technology. A little bit🌼 more support, more grip, more consistency. So this is 𝕴a good indication.

“One rider tr𓂃ied the medium front, a🥃lso he found it positive.

"Now we have a lot of data to analyse and we will bring this new technology of compound for Sepang and Qatar, for the fr๊ont and rear also.”

The 2025 front will be the first complete front tyre designed specifically to deal with the extra forces generated by the aero, ride-height devices and bigger brakes nowꦉ used in MotoGP.

By🍬 introducing it in two stages - initially just the new com💜pound technology [2024], then the new compounds with the new construction [2025] - it is hoped that teams and riders will be able to adapt to the tyre more easily.

Already tr♛ied by factory test riders, the 2025 front was available with a hard compound for the race riders at the Valencia test. But the cool conditions meant it wasn't used and will be offered again at February's Sepang tesﷺts.

“The new 2025 tyre has alreaꦬdy been validated by the test riders. This [should have been] the first time for the official riders but the conditions were not goo🎃d enough to test it,” Taramasso confirmed.

“🧜We will bring it again to the next of🌳ficial pre-season tests in Sepang and Qatar.”