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P100 Interview KTM'S TECHNICAL DIRECTOR OF MOTOGP SEBASTIAN RISSE number one, not only in terms of durability but also in terms of over-heating, treating them in the right way, not over-loading them and so on. Then, if suddenly you have the data of four riders, you can make big statistics, and you can learn a lot from this. You have much more rider comments, and in the end, you can share this work, because you need to sort out the tires. For this, it helps a lot, for example. Can you gather all that data and put it to use in the same weekend from all four bikes? Yes, we do that constantly. Is it better to have four similar riders or four riders that are different from each other? It depends for what purpose. I think for the short term, giving every rider the benefit of having maximum information for his rid- ing, it would be better to [have] the riders all similar. But to make a universal bike, it is better to have them different. Also, it can help you to, let's say, fill up some holes in your data sets because different riders with different rid- ing styles will come into different working points of the bike, of tires, everything. You get a more complete picture. But of course, you can transfer the comment and the problem or solution from one rider to the other in the easi- est way when they are similar. That's also clear. Where are your riders the same and where are they different? I think especially Pol is on one extreme about V-shaping the corner, about slowing a lot in the last part of entry, preparing the exit very well. Then we have the guys coming from Yamaha on another extreme, focusing a lot on the entry speed. Then we have Miguel [Oliveira Tech3 KTM rider], kind of a white paper, who sucks up all this information and tries to make the best out of this and that. You can see that this can also work very well, even with little experience. We try to feed him with the information he needs. He will tailor-make himself to our bike. Of course, when you only do this, it can also mean that the bike moves into a direction that is maybe not perhaps optimum. But with the full package we have, I think it's quite nice, help- ing each other in every area. What seems to be the biggest issue with Hafizh (Syahrin, Oliveira's Tech3 teammate) now? What's he struggling with the most? He has basically similar prob- lems as Johann. I think Johann has more experience going through different classes, being successful in different classes and adapting himself, but the basic problems are similar. The bike was fast in a straight line from fairly early in the project, correct? Yeah, the engine was for sure our strong point in that phase. That's clear. Also, because other Risse's relative youth belies a deeply analytical engineering mind.