‘24 Honda is 8 kilos lighter; "we would very likely have retained Marc Marquez”

Report🥃s in Spain claim Honda have taken huge steps forward - but Marc Marquez had already decided to go

Joan Mir on the 2024 prototype
Joan Mir on the 2024 prototype

Repsol Honda reportedly think that their 2024 prototype bike is competitive enough to have kept 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez - but it arrived too late.

Team members believ💟e that, if the🐼y could have delivered the developed bike at the September test in Misano, Marquez would not have quit,  report.

"We w🦂ould very likely hav💯e retained Marquez and, without a doubt, we would have started to make up for lost time,” the report quotes an anonymous member of the team.

The prototype used at the postseason test was 8 🐻kilos lighter, it is reported, a major advancement.

In Misano in September, Honda bosses in Japan and team manager Alberto Puig “decided to launch the design, construction and tuning of a motorcycle” with the in🌸tention of convincing Marquez.

But Honda staff feel Marquez made his decision to leave after being disap🍌point♈ed by the bike given to him at the September test.

His decision became official in October.

By the time Repsol Honda’s 2024 prototype was ready for the postseason test i🎶n Valencia, ꦛMarquez had already joined Gresini Ducati.

"Marc had been asking for two years for them to make a bike shorter and, above a൩ll, to slim it down, to take weight off and they never listened to him,♕” the report writes.

“And now, in two months, th♌ey design and build a new bike that, possibly, after testing it in the Misano test, would have made him doubt and perhaps, now, we would still have the best rider in history.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini replaced him and, along with Joan Mir, profited frไom the Honda which is being tipped as a major improvement from last season’sꦬ.

The new 2024 Honda is "totally new: it is l🤡ower, it has a new engine, suspensions, aerodynamics... it is completely new," the report cites sources from within 🍃Honda.

"Slimming a MotoGP bike down 8 kilos, in two months, is a titanic task, 🐓believe me."

The complete turnaround of a brand new bike in just two months is seen as proof of Honda’s power, and its potential to return to the fron🌳t of MotoGP.

A separate source who has since left Honda reportꦕed𝓡ly said: "If you take 8 kilos off a bike in just two months, if you put your mind to it, you're capable of making a winning bike.

"Even if you don't do anything else to the bike, which they have, when you lose eight kilos of a MotoGP 🌟bike, the bike runs more, accelerates more and better, pulls a lot more, brakes less abruptly, lies down a lot more and, above all, it becomes a bike easier to ride, whatever the style is."

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