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MotoGP Phillip Island: Tyre debacle forces pitstops

Tomorrow's Phillip Island MotoGP round will go down in history as being the first dry race which mandates pit-stops as Bridgestone cannot guarantee the safety of any of its rear slick tyres.

In a farcical situation, none of the available compounds will last more than 14 laps of the newly-surfaced Australian circuit and no rider will be allowed to do any more than that many circuits. But anyone pitting before lap 12 will have to do a second stop.

All factory and satellite teams will be forced to run on the medium of the available compounds (which Bridgestone call hard). The Open class riders will use their hard option tyre, which is softer than the other hard tyre.

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This is, of course, if it doesn't rain. Which it might. You couldn't make it up...

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