Pirelli has announced a new version of its SCX rear tyre for the WorldSBK field at this weekend’s Dutch Round at A🔯ssen.

This follows on from a new development SC0 that was introduced at the previous 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike round in Portimao, where perhaps what stood out most was that this development option im🃏mediately made the standard SCX effectively redundant.

With no SCQ tyre in Portimao, it would have been ordinary to see the SCX be the option in Superpole, not only in the races, but in all of the meaningful sessions – Superpole, Race 1, Race 2, and the Superpole Race – the E0125 development SC0 was the choice of the likes of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Toprak Razgatlioglu and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nicolo Bulega who dominated the weekend.

The D0640 tyre that was made the standard SC0 in Portimao remains this weekend, but the E0125 is absent 🐬in Assen. Instead, a new development SCX tyre is brought to the Netherlands by Pirelli.

Designated E0126, the development SCX uses the same new casing as the E0125 and is intended to increase grip and longevit🍸y🗹 compared to the standard SCX.

Riders will have eight of each SCX option, alongside four standard SCQ tyres and five sta꧃ndard SC0s.

At ♏the front, there are nine standard SC1s available to e🦄ach rider, and eight harder-compound SC2s.

There is also the E0158 de♛velopment rain front tyre, which was in Portimao but remains untested due to the lack of rain a⛦t the Portuguese Round.

“With the allocation of the E0126, we complete🎃 an important phase of development that involved the introduction of a new structure designed to increase grip through a greater footprint on the ground,” said Pirelli Motorcycle Racing Director Giorgio Barbier.

“The o🐲ne used by the E0126 is in fact the same casing as the soft E0125, which we introduced in Portimao where it wa🐻s widely accepted as it was the most used compound in all three races of the weekend.

“In addition to the casing, this new supersoft also d🎀iffers from the standard SCX in terms of the compound, which has been developed to further increas✱e consistency of performance over distance.

“With the right temperatures and track conditions, the supersoft is usually the most chꦆosen compound for Race 1 and Race 2, so it will be interesting to gather the riders’ feelings and make a comparison between the standard solution and the new development💙 specification, also in light of the results achieved in Portugal by its ‘sister’ soft compound.

“For the other sessions, including qualifying and the Superpole Race, th♒ere will be the extrasoft SCQ, which is now a well-established specification and usually the riders' favourite 🃏for overall performance and the short race.

“We know that the weather is always an unknown factor at Assen, which is why we will once again have the development front💮 rain tyre in E0158 specification that we were unable to test in Portimao due to lack of rain.”