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Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, Nicky Hayden unhappy over wet tyre rules – MotoGP news

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Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, Nicky Hayden unhappy over wet tyre rules – MotoGP news
The second round of the 2011 season, Grande Premio bwin de Espana, was seen in wet track conditions leaving riders with only option to use Bridgestone soft compound wet tyres with just one set.
The top-three finishers were set for a debate after the poor track conditions which filled the race with wrecks and premature retirements. Yet there is no immediate action to change the wet-tyre rules for this season, in accordance to get the appropriate
set of tyres for wet track conditions.
Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Nicky Hayden were unified to express their views to change MotoGP rules for wet tyres. Presently the regulations allow only one set of wet tyres for each race in the season and the choice between soft and medium is with
Bridgestone to choose. At Jerez Bridgestone chose for soft compound wet-tyres, which caused severe wear out of the tyres and caused many incidents.
Later the riders with podium finish at Jerez were asked if another set of wet-tyres would help in the race.
The Jerez Grand Prix Champion, Jorge Lorenzo said it obviously depends upon the riding style which affects the tyre wear out, including the bikes which give less power slides can save more rubber on the tyre.
The Jerez race day was proving to be a bit difficult after the track was left partially dry and wet. This caused the rubber to shred more easily. The fact was that all the riders were running on the same set of tyres. Therefore, it was equally difficult
and Lorenzo had to put his effort in it.
Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa who finished second at the Jerez round had no highlighted issues about the tyre but was most likely to support the rule change of MotoGP.
As he said with one set of tyre, with Bridgestone to choose the compound level, regarding the Jerez’s track condition it can be soft but and wear out faster but there are also other situations when the hard compound is used, which causes restriction
to use throttle and bikes get volatile to crash.
“The ideal would be to have two wet tyre choices… [But] I think [the rules] are pretty fixed. We asked in the past and they said 'no'. Maybe they will consider it again. It could be good,” he said.
Nicky Hayden was clear to be in favour of soft compound but he was also a victim of the situation. He did not want the Bridgestone to bring the hard compound back on track so he stuck to Perdosa’s idea for using soft compound.
“But when it's the same for everybody, I think in most circumstances we can manage with one option. I do like dual-compound rain tyres though. I think we should have them almost every time, because that's way better,” he said.

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