The MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix once again posed challenges in managing the minimum tyre pressure limit, with several riders receiving warnings for violating it. Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha) doesn’t likes the rule, even warning about the risk of having tires operating with excessively high pressures.
Confronted with the fact that in the next season, violating the tyre pressure regulations will result in disqualification, the French rider criticized the rule: ‘I think it’s pretty stupid, because it’s already difficult for us to overtake. If you put this like a disqualification I think it’s… it’s not even for safety, I don’t know why they make this kind of limitation. If you want to make it for safety, now it’s 1.87bar; put 1.80bar. Even if you go 1.75bar the tyre won’t explode. So, I don’t know why they made this regulation’.
And Quartararo emphasized that having the pressure too high can also be dangerous: ‘I think we have to talk deeply, because it’s also dangerous to have the pressure high. On the Sprint race I made a bad start, but you don’t ride your bike; it’s a totally different bike and at the end your bike holds on two tyres, so if your tyres are not working well, the bike totally changes’.