Respect between the riders

Nuts said:

I'm prob going to get fried for this, but I am actualy in favour of a single control tyre, and I think the present situation where one supplier brings two separate compounds of the same tyre, is by far the best option.

Everyone has the same to work with. All this talk about tyres not suiting a bike is ...., what they mean is that our bike does not have enough grip and we can't compensate the lack of grip with the tyres.

Get the bike right, and it will work the best regardless of which tyres are on the wheels. The people complaining are the people on the bikes with grip problems.



With competition from tyre suppliers, one brand will always have an advantage, and MotoGP simply becomes a matter of who has the best tyres.

If Suzuki are the only runner of Dunlop, and Dunlop come out with some 'off the scale awsome' tyre that no one else has access to, they will be untouchable.

IMHO, the years of sellected riders getting SNS tyres, was crap. It is hard to respect a rider, afer he wins purely because he gets access to tyres no one else can get.

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Jumkie said:

Nuts, i made a similar argument before the single tire supplier. The thing is that at Indy, i think they brought a .... product. The choices wer false. Im sure uve heard a wide range if riders complain they dont work in the cold and get caught out. I was skeptical, u can read my previous posts on all thing tires. I hope Indy was the low point and wake up call.

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Nuts said:

Agree 100% Jum, the tyres at Indy were bad, and no credit to BS for getting so wrong, but at least everyone had the same .... tyres to work with.

All manufactures make mistakes. Look at the F1 race at Indy in 2005 (??) when all Michelin cars where pulled from the race, because after practice crashes, the tyres were deemed not capable of handling the track. One of the biggest tyre screw ups ever.

Look at some of the .... tyres Michelin produced during the tyre war, making bikes with Michelin tyres completely uncompetative at some tracks.

I am in favor of a single supplier, with all riders to have access to the same 2 - 3 options from that supplier, however the 2 - 3 options all need to be useable options.

And if the supplier will be BS, then need to ensure they get the choices right. WSBK don't seem to have the same issues with tyres.

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Jumkie said:

Nuts, i made a similar argument before the single tire supplier. The thing is that at Indy, i think they brought a .... product. The choices wer false. Im sure uve heard a wide range if riders complain they dont work in the cold and get caught out. I was skeptical, u can read my previous posts on all thing tires. I hope Indy was the low point and wake up call. I want the spec tire to continue, but they need to up their game and bring usuable options in compounds.

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Talpa said:

You have a good point........however this then opens up the argument of best bike......which is exactly the same as what you are saying-if Hyosung brings out an amazing machine that proves to be the only bike that works with a very narrowly focused tyre option consistently then Motogp is just becomes about who has the best bike...which is kind of what it has been anyway, only a lot more money needs to be spent to achieve competitiveness when considering all of the regs currently.....at least with unregulated tyre supply we had proper tyre development and satelite teams stood a better chance and as history shows-performed better.......

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