ing because the allocation here is chosen by elimination and not
by choice," said the Portuguese rider. "It is not our free choice to
use a soft tire; we use it because we cannot use another one. The
combination between the carcass and the rubber from the medium
is just wrong, and we communicated that from day one of testing
here, and in fact nobody used it. So we use the hard when it's hot
and when we do that we're competitive. We cannot spend time
during six months developing a bike to a certain kind of tire and
then just have this tire removed from the allocation. We feel that the
result today is not any kind of reflection of a bike issue.
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Joan Mir (36)
scythed through
the field, quickly
dispensing of
Valentino Rossi
along the way.
