Overheating is the problem, the soft tread heats up quicker and is best kept fully wet . Have you never seen riders going off line to find standing water to cool their tyres?
Another sport where delamination is common is drifting, those guys overcook their tyres all the time and the same thing happens. Because they are using the tyres outside the operating window.
How you keep failing to understand this simple fact is beyond me.
Says the man who was arguing earlier in the thread on the basis that Rossi and Lorenzo ran different tyres. The same tyre delaminated for Dovi much earlier in the race, in conditions pretty close to full wet, which you guys keep conveniently ignoring btw.
GP bike racing is not car drifting, and again the notion that riders, or perhaps one rider anyway, the one towards whom you and MV obviously have absolutely no bias, somehow used judgement to ride just below the threshold of delamination, which would require somehow anticipating that delamination was a risk even though this had never happened apart from anything else, is more ridiculous than anything for which you are attempting to take your opponents to task. I leave aside that MV, if not you, argues simultaneously that Lorenzo is both too timid to push in the wet since his crash at Assen 2013 and at fault for the delamination of his tyre in the race under discussion because he pushed too hard. If you want to bring cars into it, as I recall there was an F1 race where they discovered in practice that the Michelin tyres wouldn't stand up to the ambient/track conditions, and the Michelin runners weren't allowed to start rather than leaving it up to the drivers to drive below the tyre failure threshold. At PI 2013 there was a mandatory pit stop when the available tyres could not cope with the ambient conditions, in that case an abrasive newly laid track surface, and this is what should have happened with the Michelin soft wets, either that or their use not being allowed at all, if Michelin anticipated sudden delamination if track conditions got drier, something they fairly obviously didn't anticipate of course, as did no one calling the race live to my knowledge, the only savants to whom such a failure was predictable being you and MV, in your case with the help of that most powerful of visual aids and predictive devices, the retrospectoscope.
Crutchlow was the one who chose hard fronts and rears, the winning choice if you avoided crashing out early in the race when conditions were not suited to the hard front tyre, and he very definitely rode that tyre according to the conditions early in the race and didn't crash out, a fate the only other rider who made that choice failed to avoid. MM was the rider who went soft wets front and rear and somehow got his bike home for third.
