I don't think this affects Pierro's "lets kill the journalist" route, but haven't actually checked, I think the restricted roads are further North, I have only ridden this route with Pierro once (and Booth Christopher) to say that I had to work hard to stay on Pierro's tail is a huge understatement, after ten or so miles out of something like 100, I actually said to myself , well, if she blows she blows, but she aint getting any mercy today! using 7 and 8,000+rpm all of the time, and cooking the brakes, with a visible loss of thickness, he held and two years later still running the same motor.
CLEM