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Michelin: Redding tyre failure unrelated to Baz testing crash
MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin says the tyre failure that affected Scott Redding in Argentina is totally unrelated to the problem that caused Loris Baz to crash at high speed in Sepang testing. Redding's incident during FP4 at Termas de Rio Hondo resulted in a shortened flag-to-flag race, after Michelin had initially withdrawn its two rear compounds for safety reasons. And following a thorough analysis of the offending tyre at the French firm’s headquarters, it has been concluded that the failure was caused by a perfect storm of factors that placed an unusually high strain on the rubber. Speaking to selected media at Jerez, Michelin technical director Nicolas Goubert confirmed that the...
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