Pecco Bagnaia's short sentence during his press conference before a San Marino Grand Prix for which he was declared fit to compete, after his violent accident suffered in Catalonia last Sunday, logically did not leave the men indifferent. of Michelin. Because the Ducati official is still trying to understand what could have happened to him at the start of the Montmelò race. However, he has already eliminated some hypotheses. On the one hand it doesn't come from him and, on the other hand, nothing has been detected at Ducati. That leaves the tires, and, precisely, the Italian has made it known that he is awaiting the expertise of the sole manufacturer of MotoGP. Who responded first before transmitting the elements...
A response which came from the representative of Bibendum in Grand Prix, the essential Piero Taramasso. But before knowing its content, let us recall the words of Pecco Bagnaia regarding his Catalan accident: “ we checked our data and at the electronic and mechanical level of the motorcycle we found no problem. The tires, on the other hand, are analyzed by Michelin, maybe we should ask them, but they are still analyzing them. The temperature seems to have been good, but it is clear that we are waiting for answers from them ».
Michelin asked Dorna to provide all the camera images to understand this highside
bagnaia added : " on the bike, I had already felt in the warm-up lap that the grip was zero, as soon as I put the bike down and opened the accelerator, I completely lost the rear. We made no mistake Mechanically it was a strange accident, now it is important to understand the causes of the accident“. A position that needed to be responded to, and the man of Michelin responded in comments relayed by GP One : " we found no anomalies. We crossed our data with those of Ducati, we will have a meeting with them, but we did not find any problem. Out of pure scruple, we will carry out more in-depth investigations, by cutting the tire and shelling it, but it will take longer to obtain the results ».
He adds, contradicting the feelings of the World Champion: “ Pecco had a perfect start, so the tire had grip. Sometimes there may be other causes. For example, I remember Pecco crashing here in Misano in 2020: he thought it was a tire problem, then we discovered he had rolled over a piece of debris. For this reason, we asked Dorna to provide us with all the images from the cameras to understand if there was another reason that triggered this highside ". The investigation is therefore underway...
