MotoGP: Lack of Bridgestone experience a help for Lowes

Sam Lowes has admitted to MCN that he believes that his lack of experience on last year’s Bridgestone tyres will be a major asset to him as he continues his transition to MotoGP for the 2017 season.

Getting his first experience of the new Michelin tyres last week in a private test at Misano on the Aprilia RS-GP he’ll ride next season, Lowes said afterwards that he believes that he should be able to benefit.

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“The Michelins will take some getting used to, but at the end of the day a tyre is a tyre. They don’t give that much feedback, so it’s hard to understand where you are with them. I’ve seen a lot of front end crashes this year, so I was cautious.

“The tyres we were testing were more like the ones from the start of the year, because all the current production is going to racing. I need to understand them a little more, find the limit, but I didn’t have any crashes and wasn’t pushing to the limit.

“The guys coming off the Bridgestones really hammered them right to the apex, which you can’t do with the Michelins, and I was a bit overcautious but there’s a happy medium that I think I’ll be able to find easier than them. I’ve got a clean slate.”

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