All of MotoGP’s tyre options were “wrong” for Honda at Mugello last weekend, forcing the marque’s riders to ‘pick their poison’, according to Franco Morbidelli. Morbidelli was one of just two Honda riders to make it to the end of the Italian Grand Prix without crashing, the other being LCR’s Cal Crutchlow. Both works riders Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa fell, the former on lap five at Scarperia and the latter on the opening tour at Turn 2, collecting the second LCR bike of Takaaki Nakagami in the process. Morbidelli’s Marc VDS teammate Thomas Luthi was another early casualty, falling on lap two. MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin brought an asymmetric hard front tyre to Mugello,...
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