Michelin, Gino Borsoi’s ironic response
Gino Borsoi’s response to Michelin
The response of Ducati Pramac team manager Gino Borsoi to Piero Taramasso, Michelin’s motorsport manager in two-wheel racing, who to the 'Gazzetta dello Sport' reiterated the lack of manufacturing or quality problems with Jorge Martin’s rear tire in the Qatar Grand Prix was not long in coming.
"I don't want to comment on things that maybe we haven't found out yet, but Martin, the day before, won a race, and he won it the way he won it – began the Italian team boss at the microphones of 'As' – I should check but, accidents aside, his worst result è a fifth place (he also has a sixth and a seventh), in Australia, where the choice of the rear tire was not the right one, but we lost half a circuit and nobody knows what would have happened with the medium tire. Focusing on the Qatar race, è it was a very strange race, far from Jorge’s level of potential. È an analysis was made by Pramac and Ducati and it turned out that, in terms of riding and tuning the bike, there was no mistake and no problem".
"When Taramasso says that Jorge’s performance did not è live up to expectations, I want to think that he is not pointing the finger directly at Jorge, because è è he is intelligent, and that he is not saying that Jorge did not do his job well,” he added. “I want to emphasize that, but I also have to say that as of today we are still waiting for a response from Michelin for a more complete analysis. There's been a first analysis of the tire construction, in which Michelin says there were no manufacturing errors, and we agree there were none, but we are still waiting for a full analysis of the compound. A month after the race we are still waiting for it".
"We absolutely do not believe in any conspiracy. Things go as they go, and sometimes we cannot control everything,” Borsoi later clarified. I think it was an unfortunate Sunday after a spectacular Saturday, and that è everything. These are racing things, period. We never think there is anything behind".
"Ducati è has been very kind to us. They behaved in the best way and in a way that no other manufacturer would have done. From the first minute to the last race they didn't let us lack anything. Ducati formed a group of people to analyze the problem in Qatar, with a lot of data, whereas they could have left it to one engineer, but Dall'Igna è put himself in charge of a team to analyze the bike and the tire".
"There è was a meeting on Thursday in Valencia, where Michelin and I were present as Pramac, and the conclusion è that the bike was not a problem, that the tire temperature at the start was even better than the previous day, with four degrees more; and that Jorge’s riding was also not a problem, with the same opening of the throttle and the same use of the clutch as the day before. I would like to emphasize that Jorge è always been one of the best Ducati riders at the start and I don’t think he forgot to ride" on Sunday in Qatar, concluded Borsoi.
