Mastering Pirelli rubber trumps new guidelines as key to 2027 MotoGP success

Ducati’s Gigi Dall’Igna believes mastering the brand new Pirelli rubber can be extra vital for MotoGP success in 2027 than any of the brand new rules that 12 months.

Headlining the brand new ruleset in 2027 is a discount of engine capability from 1000cc to 850cc, restrictions on aerodynamics and the elimination of trip top and holeshot units.

Dall’Igna, the engineering thoughts behind a lot of Ducati’s current success, made the feedback after suggesting that the brand new guidelines for 2027 had been impressed by rivals hoping to shut the hole to the Bologna producer. The marque is about to seal a fourth consecutive riders’ championship because of Marc Marquez, and has already wrapped up its sixth straight constructors’ title.

“Ultimately, generally the rule modifications, you make some rule modifications not as a result of it’s higher for the championship, however as a result of the opposite opponents wish to go on this path. As a result of they assume that [they can] cut back the hole between them and any individual else,” Dall’Igna mentioned. 

However the basic supervisor of MotoGP’s present dominant marque doesn’t imagine that the rule change itself supplies the true alternative. He’s eyeing the swap of tyre provider from Michelin to Pirelli as decisive for any groups eager to hit the bottom working.

“Truthfully talking, a very powerful change won’t be the rule change, however it will likely be the tyre change,” mentioned Dall’Igna.

“We have now a special tyre provider ranging from 2027 and, for certain, this might make a giant step within the general efficiency. So, that is, in my view, the important thing that now we have to concentrate to.

“[To win in 2027] you must perceive what that tyre wants with a view to go quick.”

Preliminary MotoGP testing on Pirelli rubber has thus far been sophisticated by disagreements round financing the check periods, in addition to the truth that the 2027 equipment just isn’t but able to run. The primary Pirelli tyre check in at present scheduled for Tuesday after the San Marino GP, utilizing modified 2025 bikes.