Five Grands Prix have been greedily swallowed up since July and at a frantic pace. What we remember, initially, is that when the cat is not there, the mice dance. An adage that Marc Marquez's injury, which required a long convalescence, posed as a hypothesis for analyzing this first burst of races. But that's going a bit quickly...
En five fights, four different winners have been identified. And three brands triumphed. Yamaha two times, KTM on two occasions and Ducati once. Only here, even with Marc Marquez in the running, nothing says that we would not have had such an indecisive campaign. Because the eight-time World Champion's withdrawal would not be the reason for this scenario. To understand, we should rather look towards Michelin...
An idea which is defended by the representative of the sole manufacturer of MotoGP, Piero Taramasso : " In 2016 Michelin returned to MotoGP, the tires changed and what is happening now has happened. There were 9 different winners this season, now we are 4 out of 5 races » he points out. “ Now we have introduced a new tire, which behaves differently from the previous one, so everyone will have to work on each track to find the right place and whoever succeeds will win ».
“This situation reminds me of 2016”
« If you remember, we went from 9 winners in 2016 to 5 in 2017 then to 3 in 2018. The situation had stabilized because we had been with the same tire for 3 and a half years, I am not surprised that some drivers now feel a little upset » develops the representative Michelin.
« You have to work on every track, you can't find a magic setup that works everywhere. Each track has different characteristics, such as configuration and grip level, this is normal. The driver who can find a way to make the tires work on each track will be the one who wins the championship, and hats off to him. This situation reminds me of 2016 " finished Piero Taramasso which therefore does not note the absence of Marc Marquez as the major fact of suspense which is required this year…
