Takaaki Nakagami will stay with the LCR Honda satellite team until the end of 2022 and will be riding the factory Honda bike in 2021, the same spec as that of the Marc Marquez and Pol Espargaro. Nakagami will be joined by Alex Marquez next season, who replaces Cal Crutchlow in the team.
It is likely that this tyre blow happened when Hamilton was enroute to Portimao for the Portuguese GP which returns this weekend after a gap of 24 years.