Could crashes be the decisive factor in tense MotoGP title fight?

What's causing the crashes that could decide the 2024 championship?

If you look at the actual crash statistics for the 2024 MotoGP season after the first 10 rounds, the top three in the standings haven’t crashed a whole lot.

At last weekend’s British GP, Bagnaia suffered his fifth race crash of the season after sliding out of fourth in the sprint. That adds to a crash out of the lead in the Barcelona sprint, a spill in qualifying at Le Mans, a collision in the Jerez sprint and a tangle with Marquez in the Portuguese GP. This shows just how much of an impact these crashes have had on the title battle. At its biggest, the gap splitting Martin and Bagnaia was 44 points after the latter crashed out of the Barcelona sprint.

While this is very much down to the competitive nature of MotoGP’s top riders now, Michelin’s 2024 rear tyres have had a big part to play too.The run-in to last year’s decider was overshadowed by the very real danger a tyre pressure penalty could deny either Martin or Bagnaia, while the former’s chances were majorly harmed by a problem rear in the Qatar GP.

“First of all, the new rear tyres are fantastic but are making us crash more because the rear is pushing the front a lot,” Bagnaia said.

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