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I think lower tire pressure gives more contact area to the track
There are already at the limit, if you go lower this can happen :
For two reasons. First, because Michelin implemented a minimum pressure for safety reasons, to prevent teams from going so lower that a tyre might collapse – an obvious PR nightmare. (And yet this has never happened, despite multiple riders winning races at below 1.88 bar since Michelin became MotoGP’s tyre supplier in 2016.)
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/...sure-rule-is-a-disaster-for-the-championship/
Apparently front Michellins are bad but partly due to ever increasing Aero