Honda's MotoGP factory riders Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa have admitted managing tyre temperatures is likely to be the key challenge to their victory bids in Sunday's Valencia Grand Prix. While several riders have suggested that the compounds offered for the race by Bridgestone were too soft for the Valencian heat, the Hondas in particular struggled with managing the temperature of the front tyre. "Normally, with Honda we are pushing a lot to the front tyre and normally we are using hard front tyre but here nobody expected this temperature," Marquez said. "32 [compound] is a quite a soft option - okay, it's a hard option but a soft tyre. "We are struggling there, we...
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