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Tire regulations for 2008 MotoGP season |
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Posted by Staff
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
The Grand Prix Commission, composed of Messrs. Carmelo Ezpeleta (Dorna,
Chairman), Claude Danis (FIM), Hervé Poncharal (IRTA) and Takanao Tsubouchi
(MSMA), in the presence of Messrs Vito Ippolito, FIM President, and Paul Butler
(Secretary of the meeting), in a meeting held today at the circuit of Valencia,
unanimously decided to introduce the following amendment to the Road Racing
World Championship Grand Prix Regulations – application as from 1st January
2008.
Technical Regulations
2.9. Tyre
restrictions for MotoGP
2.9.3 Teams that are supplied by a
tyre manufacturer that has achieved at least two MotoGP race wins in dry
conditions since the first race of the 2005 season will be restricted in the
quantity of slick tyres that each of the teams riders may use at a single event
as follows:During all practice sessions, warm up and the race a maximum
of 40 slick tyres, specifically:
Front tyres:
18
Rear tyres: 22
It has been further
decided, also for application as from 1.1.2008, that tyre companies competing in
the MotoGP class can, prior to the start of the first race of the season,
nominate one GP circuit on which they can test for a maximum of 4 days per year,
at any time after the GP has been held at that particular circuit. No rider
designated by any MotoGP team will be permitted to take part in these
tests.
Whenever a new circuit is introduced in the MotoGP calendar for
the first time or whenever an existing circuit is totally resurfaced, then a
tyre test of a maximum of 2 days of duration must be organised at that circuit a
minimum of 4 weeks prior to the race. This test will be open to all tyre and
motorcycle manufacturers competing in the MotoGP class, but no rider designated
by a MotoGP team will be permitted to take part in these tests.
from InfoMotoGP
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