, specially made for the series, by whichever manufacturer (probably Honda) is willing to be appointed by the MSMA, the manufacturers’ association.This will take the concept even further from Dorna chief Carmelo Ezpeleta’s insistence that the bikes

TALK OF a single tyre rule was rife at Misano, in the wake of Dorna’s special safety meeting with the MotoGP riders. But some reservations seem to have crept in to what had been a unanimous decision – particularly concerning what make of tyre would

to share the joke.It all began when Hayden said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper after the Australian GP that Pedrosa’s manager Alberto Puig was the decision-maker at the Honda factory team.Puig reacted angrily, co-opting fellow-Spaniards at Dorna’s

to the special riders’ meeting with Dorna at Brno; and a chorus from the riders requested a return to the torquier 990s. But the increases in corner speed – on bikes with the same minimum weight – were as much down to tyre advances and electronic refinements

, there is no need to develop technology.”Michelin motorcycle tyre racing chief Jean-Philippe Weber said that Michelin had agreed to the extraordinary request because “we hope what we do will help to keep competition between tyre manufacturers. We are facing a