"Especially in the last years it looks like the rear tyres are very soft [construction] and usually in all my career I always prefer hard [constru♏ction] tyres," the nine-time world champion said last season.

"So for this re🌟ason I suffer a lot, especially after some laps because the rear moves very much.

"We need to work with the bike in another way and make the bike more soft. And a🔥lso ride to load the tyre more s🙈moothly. If not, the tyre gives up [moves].

"With this type of setting and these types of tyres I am in more trouble; I am not able to use my s💃tyle. But these are the tyres we all have and the others are able to be strong with them."

The return to a special heat-resistant rear tyre casing, last used at Buriram 2018, for Mandalika offered the current grid a chance to e🅷xperien𝐆ce the kind of stiffer construction used in previous MotoGP tyres (albeit paired with the latest compounds).

The lack of any testing time with the🀅 modified casing caused much publicised problems for the likes of Honda and Suzuki, but lap times at the front matched those achieved on the softer 2022-tyres during February's official test.

That's becau♏se while the latest casing, introduced for 2020, offers more outright grip, it comes at the expense of stability in the faster sections.

"Through the three fast corners, 5-6-7, when you are on the lean angle and trying to pull gas and hitting kerbs and all so🐈rts of things [the 2018 casing] definitely gave me a lot more stability and a lot more confidence to be able to hang off the bike more," said Ducati's Jack Miller. "In general,⭕ a lot less 'pumping'."

The Australian added that the stiffer casing would also ℱimprove handling at other circu🎃its with high-speed changes of direction.

"I've given my feedback to both Michelin and Ducati about it a lot of times. For example, at Assen, we have issues with bikes absolutely ♏doing this [shaking] and I feel that is 100% coming from the reꦺar tyre," he explained.

"For sure, the [2꧑018 casing] performanc🌟e isn't maybe as good as something soft and malleable that gets nice and hooked up. But you need to find a compromise I guess."

MotoGP riders have bee🐠n testing a potential new rear tyre casing for the 2023 season since early last year.

The revised construction is ꧃described as "a small tuning" to the present design, with the specific aim of improving 🌳warm-up performance.

"The goal is to improve the warm-up, in the f༒irst 3-4 laps, then the performance is equal to the standard [current] specification," explained Michelin's Piero Taramasso.

MotoGP should be back on the standard ꩲ2022 casing for next weekend's Argentine round at Termas de Rio Hondo.