Honda have made major behind-the-scenes changes to power Marc Marquez, Joan Mir, Alex Rins and Takaaki Nakagami in 2023
Alberto Puig, their long-serving team manager, remains at the helm after a vigorous defence of his style from the team’s star rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.
The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 MotoGP rider line-up with pair Marquez with the incoming168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Joan Mir for Repsol Honda, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Rins joins LCR Honda alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Takaaki Nakagami. The four riders could bene🌞fit f൲rom these behind-the-scenes tweaks…
Mir’s new right-hand man
Giacomo Guidotti was the Crew Chi💜ef for Nakagami at LCR Honda last season but will make the step up to the factory team to work alongside new rider Mir, the 2020 world champion who joins from Suzuki.
Guidotti was formerly 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dani Pedrosa’s race engineer.
Ex-rider to work with Nakagami
Guidotti’s move to work with Rins create🐼d a vacancy as Nakagami’s Crew Chief which will be filled by Klaus Nohles.
Ex-rider Nohles is the first Crew Chief from Germany since the ꦉstart of MotoGP’s four-stroke era in 2002.
He had 💟previously been working with Honda’s test team, and their test rider Stefan Bradl.
Nohles h🏅ad previously stepped in when Guidotti injured himself in a bicycle crash to oversee Nakagami in Valencia last year.
Rins inherits LCR chief
Alex Rins, who came across from Suzuki, will inherit David Garcia⛄ as his Crew Chief.
Garcia worked with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez, who has left for Gresini Ducati, last season.
LCR Honda’s General Technical Diᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrector will be Christophe Bourguignon.
New boss of the test team
Ramon Aurin is the new technical lead for Honda’s test team. He has previously worked with Dani Pedrosa, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Andrea Dovizioso, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pol Espargaro.
The ever-present Santi
Marc Marquez’s long-standing Crew Chief Santi 🐻Hernandez is a welcome ever-present and will remain in 2023. Hernandez’s presence may be felt even more keenly by Marc, who is riding without his brother in the team and without their 🅠longstanding manager Emilio Alzamora.
How has the leadership team changed?
Tetsuhiro Kuwata will be replaced as HRC Racing Manager by Shinichi Kokubu, who is returning to the paddock after a feꩵw years away.
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