The first thing these curves from the Czech Republic Grand Prix show us is the degradation of the tires, in this case the degradation of the rear tires on the bumpy and loose surface of the Brno circuit.
Whatever the choices of the drivers, soft or medium, since no one had chosen the hard, this obviously had no impact on the racing rhythms, but it is easy to note that the curves are more inclined than usual, thus showing very clearly that the envelopes have deteriorated in each round, starting from the sixth round. More than 2 seconds were thus lost between the start and end of the race, while the best lap in the race is around half a second slower than last year (1'57.445 for Brad Binder in 2020 compared to 1'56.912 for Alex Rins in 2019, under similar conditions).
fabio quartararo is clearly the driver who had the most difficult race in our table. Visibly, its pace is both the slowest and the least regular, the consequence of several overruns but also undoubtedly of minor heat events, such as he declared this during his debriefing : “I'm glad I stayed on my wheels. » With the exception of FP4, and including in the race, El Diablo suffered all weekend from the strong degradation of its tires on the loose track of the Czech circuit.
Still at Yamaha, Valentino Rossi and especially Franco Morbidelli were able to adopt a faster and less bumpy pace, and this difference will have to be seriously studied to try to understand the lack of overall performance of the French driver's M1.
Valentino Rossi, he still suffered until the ninth lap, undoubtedly the price to pay to overtake Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaró, before being very fast in the second part of the race.
We also note the beautiful race ofAlex Rins despite his still weakened arm, with very regular times with the exception of the 16th lap, when he joined Fabio Quartararo before passing him, as well as Valentino Rossi a loop later.
The Suzuki rider was then able to pounce on John Zarco whose graph shows an extremely strong run until lap 14, emphasizing where the two-time world champion performs his incredible long lap before dropping the pace slightly. Passage through dust has accelerated tire degradation?
Finally there remain the two KTM riders, Brad Binder et Miguel Oliveira. Because yes, if Brad Binder gave us a fantastic race, registering the best lap in the race on the third lap and even allowing himself to stick a good half-second to all his opponents on the 17th lap, the one who paid both a very modest qualification in 13th position as well as not very incisive first laps is Miguel Oliveira, whose pace turns out to be very close to the one who brought his first victory in MotoGP to the men of Mattighofen.
Pay attention to the next performances of the Portuguese driver, because if the spotlight has logically been on the new South African star, our graph also shows that the RC16s were really efficient last weekend...
