MotoGP News
Date: 27/April/2012
Reigning MotoGP double champion Casey Stoner has branded the decision to allocate just two of the new Bridgestone front tyres to each rider at Jerez as ‘hilarious’.
Due to the ‘positive appraisal’ by riders during testing, Bridgestone has agreed to replace the current front tyre from Silverstone (round six) onwards.
But as an interim measure, riders will be allocated two of the new specification fronts in the events prior to Silverstone, starting at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix.
That is in addition to the nine front tyres they already receive at each race weekend.
However Repsol Honda star Stoner said two tyres would not allow anywhere near enough track time to find a set-up.
"It seems like a ridiculous number to me,” he said. “There's no point having just one to test and one to race with. You're going to need more than that.
“The new front is definitely not going to help our chatter [vibration] issues anyway, we've already tested this tyre and it doesn't help at all. In fact, we found out it was less stable on braking and corner entry so we don't really know what to do with this tyre."
Stoner is third in the 2012 championship after one round, finishing behind Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo and his Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa in Qatar.
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