MotoGP™ tyre supplier Bridgestone has verified that Jorge Lorenzo did not suffer a rear tyre problem in Sunday’s French Grand Prix. The world champion, suffering a lack of rear grip, fell down the field to an eventual seventh position.

MotoGP™ Director of Technology Corrado Cecchinelli caught up with motogp.com to give his view on the Magneti Marelli ECU at the Le Mans race, ahead of which the first software upgrade was introduced at the Jerez post-race test. Teams running the software include NGM Mobile Forward Racing, Came IodaRacing Project and Avintia Blusens, as well as the in-house PBM chassis (not the PBM ART machine).

One of the VIPs at Sunday’s Monster Energy Grand Prix de France was 2008 F1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. The Mercedes driver exchanged helmets with current MotoGP™ World Champion Jorge Lorenzo and talked of impressive rookie Marc Marquez.