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Published on April 28, 2023 • 23:59 PM by Oléna Champlain

MotoGP Spain J1: Alex Rins' (justified) rant on the chimera of tire pressure control

Alex Rins points out that a rule that you don't want to enforce in MotoGP no longer has any reason to exist if you have two cents of common sense.

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This is a new episode in the life of MotoGP which shows how difficult it is for everyone to assume their responsibility. Meanwhile, the drivers play their careers and their lives on the track, and they cannot lie. This new disappointment comes from this vague question of the tire pressure to be respected according to the recommendations of the sole manufacturer Michelin in the name of safety and which no one cares more or less. With a single sensor finally validated, the basis was laid for serious controls and possible sanctions. Rubbish.

Without getting lost in everyone's arguments and in debates where everyone is right, especially if they speak last and loudly enough, we must more seriously and simply reflect on this principle known since the dawn of time: be a rule exists and we have enforced it. Or we don't apply it and the rule no longer exists.

Alex Rins: “ either they remove this rule or they are strict »

This is exactly whatalex rins mentioned, thus putting MotoGP officials in front of their responsibilities. Recalling the complexity of the problem, he then mentions the simplicity of its resolution: “ it's very difficult to find a balance because if you attended at the last race in Texas, for example, everyone would be eliminated because all the drivers were at the pressure limit ».

The hypocrisy finally lifted, the pilot Honda LCR sets the record straight MotoGP.com : " what is not good, what is not acceptable, is that if someone says that this rule is in force and that it will be in force for Jerez, Le Mans or anywhere else, it must be. In theory, this is the first avenue to find this rule. I don't know why they postponed it to Mugello or something. So either they take it away or they're strict ". Either we have it or we don't.

“I don’t know why they postponed the tire rules; either they remove them or they have to be strict” - Alex Rins