With the 2024 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship hotting up nicely and the Championship tightening each round, the Tissot Aragon Round is bound to be one of the most important. Throw into the mix a brand-new Pirelli SC0 development tyre and a recently resurfaced race track and you get even more work than usual. We take a look at Pirelli’s allocation for MotorLand Aragon.

DEVELOPMENT SC0: better overall performance

Pirelli have decided to bring two variants of the SC0 as an option: the standard solution and the D0640 development solution, which features a compound with overall better performance than the standard version. At the front, the standard SC1 is joined by the D0715 specification development, which debuted at Magny-Cours and features an innovative structure, aiming to improve the stability of the SC1 family.

NO SCQ TYRE: SCX to be the Superpole tyre of choice

The other important change is in regards to the option for Superpole and the Superpole Race, which at Aragon will be the supersoft SCX instead of the extra soft SCQ that the riders have available on circuits with less aggressive asphalt. This echoes the allocation at Most and Portimao, where the SCX tyre also in place of the SCQ.

PIRELLI GIVE DETAILS: “The track is more abrasive than in the past”

Giorgio Barbier, motorcycle racing director at Pirelli explained all: “We’ve been racing WorldSBK at Aragon for several years now; therefore, it is a track that we know well. A few months ago, however, it was completely resurfaced, and this changed the references we had. We have already had the opportunity to ride on the new asphalt, with the tests and the Moto2™ and Moto3™ races held at the end of August and we have seen that it offers good grip but is also more abrasive than in the past. That’s why we decided to offer the teams a range of options with solutions that are, on average, harder than in the other rounds, with the adoption of the SCX instead of the SCQ for qualifying and the Superpole Race and two SC0 options as softer choices for the rear in long races. The soft SC0 family has always given excellent confidence to the riders and is a valid alternative to the SCX for the most aggressive tracks, which is why we will offer both the standard version and the D0640 specification development variant in WorldSBK, which thanks to a new compound should offer further improvements.

In any case, it is likely to expect that the track conditions will progressively improve as the sessions unfold, the confidence of the riders will increase gradually, and everyone will be able to find the most congenial compound solution among those available. Finally, we will also re-propose the development SC1 front in D0715 specification that we have allocated from Magny-Cours, to give the teams the opportunity to test it well, considering that in France and Cremona, due to the weather and tracks conditions, there was not many opportunities.”

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Source: WorldSBK.com