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MotoGP race direction: "Michelin has no clue what happened"

Dorna Sport's representative on MotoGP race direction, Javier Alonso, says tyre supplier Michelin "has no clue what happened" to Scott Redding's tyre during practice in Argentina on Saturday. After a meeting with race direction and team bosses, the French manufacturer made the drastic decision to pull out both rear tyre specifications that had been available, forcing the whole grid to do the race with a third compound with a stiffer construction. Each rider will get four such tyres on top of an extra front one for the 30 minutes of the newly-added practice session and the extra 20 minutes of warm-up. "Michelin wasn't sure if either of the two compounds would be able to...
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