Michelin: No single tyre bid.

Single tyre rule is only meant to put more money in to Dorna's deep pockets. The safety and costs reason is just plain ridiculous. Michelin is right to refuse taking part in this masquerade. Now Bridgestone is left without a competitor, and I'll be curious to see how much money they accepted to throw in to get the deal... Bridgestone management has been much more efficient than Michelin's for the past two years, obtaining first the rule preventing Michelin from adapting its tires to the actual track conditions (which was truly safer than betting on what these conditions could be) and then, though pretending being against the one tire rule, organizing it behind Michelin's back. Disgusting...

Guess what? Dorna should have set two bids: one for qualifying tires, obviously better at Clermont Ferrand, and one for race tires, where the Japs have the edge... ))

It would have resulted in even more money in Dorna's pockets...

I would prefer to see the bid go to Pirelli or Dunlop, rather than to Bridgestone. Then all would start from zero.

From a complete none technical point of view,what Michelin has said is complete sense. If there is no competition, development is bound to suffer so the consumer will in the end not reap the benifit of a tried an tested product. Racing on a level playing field should be good though

I remmember that during a Eurosport a few years ago Toby Moody said that one day Bridgestone will dominate the premier class - looks like he was right!

Now all the GP commision (well Honda) needs to do is increase the bikes weight minimum limit. This slow down the corner speeds (and have an overall weigh limit of bike and rider.)

technology=development=safety=competition=bridgestone accepting the rule soon will fall... michelin has been more than 100 years of service to the people and car safety and technology and eliminating those will suffer the consumers.. like f1 I have'nt any interest anymore about the tires, color line, soft, super soft... so what? whatever it is it just bridgestone... I dnt think people might interest so much about that...

Single tyre rule, six hundred proddy bikes, what next?
I suggest a one day meeting to cut costs
2 10 minutes practice sessions
Only molded patterned tyres (saves on wheels)
Grid drawn out of a hat
Maximum prize money of £10 for a win.
A run 'what you brung class'
That should sort out the premier motorcycle sporting event.
Does old Carmelo also run the worlds banks, I just hope he's not tasked with organising the end of season dinner and dance!

MotoGP goes Superbike
Only Superbikes are better

Typical French.They win for about 20 years on the trot and when Bridgestone come and beat them twice,as per usual,the French go off crying.Glad to see the back of those ignorant French.After just the first couple of races Michelin waved the white flag,a typical trait for those pansy French.

So how is every bike running Bridgestone supposed to reduce corner speeds?

Tonyed

Brilliant !

Look on the bright side: maybe MotoGP will become as exciting as WSBK and BSB. Both of those series have flourished under the single tyre rule and both produce better and closer racing.

Loser.


First, they lost the F1 deal, now Moto GP.

Bridgestone IS the future.

Lost? They chose not to play the game. Just like they chose not to play in F1 after winning the world championship back to back when it was determoned F1 would be mono-tyre. This appears to be comapany policy in prototype racing of no mono-tyre. They support mono-car/ mono-tyre series such as Porsche Cup and the like. OK, they lost the WRC bid to Pirelli after domination that series. In WSBK Dunlop nor Michelin were ever given a chance from the word go.

If Bridgestone and Michelen were against the control tyre, they both should have refused to submit a bid, thus there would be nobody else supplying competitive tyres and forcing Dorna to change it's mind.

~I applaud Michelins stance on this blatent Dorna inspired piece of "old boys club lets line our pockets and screw the rest" policy.

I sinceely hope Bridgestone fall on their sword after this farce.

And how the hell do you reduce corner speed and improve safety by making it a single tyre rule.

If i went to my boss and said to him, i know how to reduce accidents at work and he asked me how and i told him "by only letting the employees work 1 hour a week" he would sack my hide.

Sounds rediculous - true, but so is the single tyre rule.

Spanish Mafia ruining MotoGP.

So how is every bike running Bridgestone supposed to reduce corner speeds?
Posted by Tokehashi Wakibakki

Quite simply really. Without any competition, they've no-one to beat, so they no longer have to make 'super sticky' tyres. Whatever compound softness they decide to make affects speed as Dorna will probably ask them to reign tyre development costs in and as sticky rubber is more expensive to develop and produce, they'll produce harder, cheaper tyres, which conversely means slower tyres.

See......?

Why waste millions of £, $, € or whatever to make the bikes go faster and then put on tyres designed to make them slower??

its just providing a different challenge to the manufacturers, teams and riders. Manufacturer = build a bike to get the most out of the same tyre that everyone else is using, not find a tyre that suits the bike. Team = to make that bike work at each circuit on the same tyre as everyone else. rider = when push comes to shove use their equipment to better effect on the same tyre as the guy hes racing!... from a development point of view its not ideal at all, but how much further can they develop road tyres and produce them at a reasonable cost to the public? from a racing point of view i think it will be good. we'll see in 09 i guess!