MotoGP | 2022 | Silly Season

Well, Dunlop is probably willing, but I dont think anyone would want that. As I believe King Kenny once said, "I'd rather pay for Michelins than get Dunlops for free".

 

Can’t imagine that’s popular with most riders.

 

IIRC, Michelin was the only bidder after Bridgestone bowed out. Think they paid $30M to be the only supplier, and basically bid against themselves.

Probably didn't even bid this time.

 

I really wish someone different would come in. Make them change the bikes up again.

 

I don't. I'm surprised I feel this way, but right now they've stumbled on a formula that just works. Yeah, there is some quality control issues from tire to tire affecting the results (highlighting just how on the knife edge they are right now), but aside from that we're being treated to the best racing we've seen in a long time. Don't change a thing.

And I used to love all the technical changes and stuff from year to year.

 

Something I wonder about quality control: if they could go back in time and check a tire right after production that ended up chunking massively later during a race, would they be able to find that something is wrong with it?

 

I would bet they could In a control environment, but once you factor in track temp, air temp, and teams not always following tire pressure mandates it probably get close to impossible to figure out if the tire had a manufacturer defect or the tire was affected by the other conditions

 

Don't the teams have a specific tech assigned to the team to help with tire set up (pressures, recommend what tire to run and all that shit)?

I'm sure they get the information you mentioned, Sean.

 

If this is about what I asked, I wasn't talking about doing a postmortem. My hypothetical involved time travel. It tire fails during the race. Michelin can travel back in time to the moment the tire came out of the oven. Would they be able upon inspection to find something wrong with it every time?

 

I knew what you meant and understood your scifi tire fan story stuff.

I was too lazy to quote Sean.

 

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/...ssibility-to-lock-young-riders-for-five-years

 

It's the riders that lock themselves in.

Following a dream often blurs out the small print....

And yes, the Red Bull academy is basically a Ponzi scheme that needs to finance itself.

 

Thats the most difficult thing to 'read' with all the ads and pictures breaking up the story, how stupid to design your page like that!

 

You can bet Michelin checks and logs about a thousand parameters as the MotoGP tires are being made so they don't let the tires leave the production floor if any known setting/temperatures/pressures/etc are out of spec. So they can look at pretty much every step of the process to see if anything was unusual if there is a tire "failure". I'm not saying that they can't make a bad tire, just saying that they are checking things as they are made and not just after the horse is out of the barn. There is certainly the possibility that something abnormal happened that doesn't get recorded and the big challenge of any manufacturing process is investigating what happened and figuring out if any unusual production situations caused a failure.


I just looked up and saw that Michelin has been around for 132 years so that's a huge amount of experience in making anything, let alone tires. Very interesting.

 

Welcome to most websites these days

 

I’d like to see Pirelli and Michelin swap series.

 

How about Pirelli front and Michelin rear?