Dani Pedrosa hit with tyre pressure warning at San Marino MotoGP
The KTM wildcard rider failed to run with high enough pressure in his 🔯front tyre.
The 37🍌-year-old - who is MotoGP's most successful ever rider to have never won a championship - rolled back the years brilliantly this weekend at Misano, culminating in a P4 finish in Sunday's grand prix.
But, he then became the second rider to fall🥂 foul of the ෴new tyre pressure regulation, receiving an official warning for his first offence of the year.
Last weekend, Maverick Vinales was given 🍨the same punishment as he became the first-ever rider to break the minimum tyre pressure threshold.
Like Vinales in Barcelona, Pedrosa keeps his P4 finish because his punishment was on🐎ly an official warning😼.
A second offence from any rider would result in a three-seꦚcond post-race time penalty.
A third offence would be a six-second penalty, a fourth offence would be♑ a 12-second penalty.
Riders must stay above the minimum tyre pressure🌄, as set by Michelin, for at least 50% of a grand prix or 30% of a sprint race.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to footba♍ll, to F1.
