MotoGP one-make tyre manufacturer Michelin have admitted that much of the data they collected earlier this year in a three-day test at Sepang will be largely irrelevant for this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix after the track was resurfaced. But with a few days of rain-struck testing at the track since the new asphalt was laid, by Cal Crutchlow, Colin Edwards and Michele Pirro in July, Piero Taramasso, manager of Michelin’s Two-Wheel Motorsport Group, says they’ve at least got a base setting. “Sepang will signal the last fly-away race of the tour, but we won’t be taking things easy because it’s the end of the trip! The circuit has been re-surfaced since we tested there in...
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