Michelin has oܫutlined its development plan for the MotoGP front tyre construction it planned to introduce for 2025 but has delayed until a꧅t least 2026.

The Frenc꧑h tyre manufacturer has been working on a new front option designed to cope better with the increased effects aerodynamics have had, part✤icularly in regards to tyre pressure.

The idea was to introduce this tyre in 2025, ཧbut with very little testing carried out on the new construction dur🌊ing the 2024 season the decision was made to delay this to 2026.

Michelin brought the new front t𝔉yre to the post-season Barcelona test, which a handful of riders tried and responded positively to it.

“Yeah, m൩ore or less same feeling as Misano,” Honda’s Luca Marini sa🌞id in Barcelona about the new front tyre.

“When you exit from the garage the bike feels super heavy, but when you start to massage the tyrꦛe and get it warm then the feeling is warm.

“For me they are doing a good job with the front tyre, espec🌞ially when entering with 🌞the brakes on.

“The limit feels even further now [but] until you crash you don’t understand the li♏mit.

“So, when the time comes to push with this tyre it 🔯feels like you can enter with muc⛄h more brake on. There are no negative points.”

In an interview with it.motorsport.com, Michelin’s motorsport bo♔ss Piero Taramasso outlined the next phase of development for the new front tyre.

“We will take it again 🌳to Sepang and Buriram, for the winter tests, maybe maki𒐪ng a few more changes,” he said.

“Then, based oᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚn the results we will have in these two sessions, when we will have tested it on four or five different circuits and in different conditions, we will make the last necessary changes, then the model will be fixed and we will not change it again.

“Afterwards, we will propose it again throughout 2025 both in the official tests and in the private tests, so that the teams can get used to it and start finding settings to make t🐽he most of it, both in terms of chassis and suspension.

“In th൩is way, we think they will be ready when we finally introduce༒ it.

“As we said in Misano, we chose not to introduce it immediately in 2🦋025 precisely to move forward with the tests and also give a bit of stability to the teams, knowing that this year we had already introduced new compounds both at the front and the rear.”

Touching on Marini’s comments abou💦t the feeling of heaviness on the new front tyre when it is new, Taramasso says this is an issue baffling Michelin as the construction is 1kg lighter than the 2024 version.

“The only thing we need to understand is🦄 why, despite being 1kg lighter than the previous model, some riders tell us that they feel the bike is heavier, less agile, especially when changing direction,” he added.

“We need to understand if it is somethiꦿng related to the setting or perhaps to the pressures, which could require different parameters.

“However, I must say that this ty🐈pe of comment was made by practically everyone in Misano, while in Barcelona it wasꦆ already a little less widespread.

“In any case, we are studying the data to understand the reason, but for the rest we 🍃can talk about a tyre in line with🌌 our expectations.”