Repsol Honda boss Alberto Puig’s assessment of MotoGP Sepang test: “We must improve many, many things”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, the team’s star rider, left Sepang confident in his own improving physical performance but claiming that the current incarnation of his 2023 bike mus🎃t be dramatically improved before it can help him fight for the champ𒉰ionship.
Honda endured a horrible 2022 - Marquez missed six races due to injury yet was still their highest-placed rider in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings - while they emba🐎rrassingly failed to🎶 score a single point in a premier class race for the first time in 40 years in Germany.
Team manager Puig reflected on the three-day preseason test in Sepang: “It was an evolution of what we tried in ꧃V𝔉alencia. For us, the testing will finish in Portimao.
“Clearly, we a🐼re not there ye𝓰t. Where we want to be.
“To keep on trying solutions that we have, we have many idea🌠s, but we have to bring them and prove t🔴hat they are working. This is what we are doing now.
“One of our goals is to improve traction but it’s not the only one.♋ ꧋We have to improve many, many things.
“We think that 💃we are in the right direction. We had four bikes - the same, with different settings. But we don’t have a completely new concept.
“We do not think that we have achieved our goal. No. From engine and from chassis, we hav🦋e possibilities. But we neꦏed more time, this is clear.”
Marquez began oౠn Friday with four bikes before finalising his favourite one on♔ Sunday, although he made it clear that even Honda’s best efforts “need another step”.
He was 10th-fastest on Sunday with new teammate, the 2020 MotoGP champion Joan Mir, 12th.
Perhaps if Honda can add further performance to their machinery at the upcoming Portimao test then this past weekend will be reviewed as a positive expe꧒rience because M🎉arquez rode injury-free.
“Marc is good, his condition is mucꦬh better ꩲcompared to last year,” Puig said.
“He can do laps and, the next❀ morning, he is not de𝕴stroyed, sore, painful.
“We see progress with Joan. He is improving and und♚erstanding the 🌠bike.
“If we bring the bike that we think we can bring? We ♔cannot forget Joan is a two-time world champion. This is the reason that he is here.”
James was a sports j🎀ournalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from A🌞merican sports, to football, to F1.
