Many of you asked us if Johann Zarco did the Grand Prix of the Americas with a medium rear tire, as the indications showed on the screen, or with a soft rear tire, as he had tried to do. in Qatar.
The Tech3 driver did have a medium rear tire, just like Valentino Rossi, Maverick Viñales and Jonas Folger. This was confirmed to us by Hervé Poncharal himself, as well as by Michelin technicians.
Internet users' doubt comes from bad information announced live by Eurosport's special correspondent on the starting grid. To err is human and it happens even to the best…
However, and more importantly, the question pinpoints a problem to which we (yet) do not have the answer. The automatic system which detects the nature of the tires (soft, medium or hard) does so before the starting grid.
Does the display update if drivers change tires on it, and how?
We will try to give you the answer tomorrow…
