Pirelli wants to test new MotoGP tyres with 2027 b...

Pirelli hopes to check its new MotoGP tyres with 2027-spec prototypes and full-time riders “midway by way of” subsequent yr’s calendar.

With simply over a yr remaining earlier than Pirelli replaces Michelin because the official tyre provider within the premier class, not one of the common riders on the grid have but been capable of pattern the Milan-based producer’s new rubber.

Pirelli performed its first take a look at with 2027 tyres at Misano in September, nevertheless it was restricted to check riders. All 5 producers participating on this planet championship lent their take a look at riders at Misano, with Augusto Fernandez on responsibility for Yamaha, Takaaki Nakagami representing Honda, Lorenzo Savadori driving for Aprilia, Dani Pedrosa turning laps for KTM, and Michele Pirro taking to the monitor on the Ducati.  

The 5 riders rode their 2025 bikes with ride-height gadgets deactivated and aerodynamics modified with the intention to replicate the traits and efficiency of the 850cc prototypes attributable to debut in 2027.

Whereas work continues at Pirelli’s growth centre, its representatives consider they won’t be able to ship tyres to the common riders till “halfway by way of” the 2026 season. 

That is additional difficult by the probability of main grid modifications in 2027, as the brand new technical laws coincide with the beginning of MotoGP’s traditional two-year contract cycle.

Up to now, no everlasting MotoGP rider has had the chance to check the brand new tyre – one thing that’s essential for each Pirelli and the 5 producers creating all-new bikes for 2027.

“We’ll positively do a take a look at in some unspecified time in the future subsequent season, I might say across the center of the calendar,” Pirelli’s director Giorgio Barbier advised Motorsport.com.

“We have requested to do it with the up to date bikes; that’s, the 850cc ones. All of the producers will already be beginning to work on that challenge, and for us it is crucial to have entry to these prototypes, and to the riders who shall be racing in 2027.”

Though Barbier didn’t affirm dates, Motorsport.com understands these exams shall be held in June and September, probably at Brno and Misano. Nevertheless, between the center of 2026 and the start of 2027, the grid may change considerably, with riders testing for one producer after which racing for an additional the yr after.

“That is the primary downside,” admitted Barbier. “As a result of there’ll most likely be numerous rider modifications in all of the groups subsequent yr. Usually, every producer will be capable of present us with their 2027 bike, however they won’t but know what their rider line-up shall be for that yr.”

The primary producer to check a motorcycle with an 850cc engine and Pirelli tyres was KTM, with Pol Espargaro turning his first laps within the prototype at Jerez earlier this month.

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– The Motorsport.com Crew