Honda have been advised to prioritise bike development during raceꦛ weekends for the rest of this season.

The Japanese manufacturer is lagging at the back of the MotoGP grid and has now been ꦫtold to focus on✱ the new 2027 regulations, on the basis that they won’t be able to win by 2026 anyway.

Honda, traditionally a MotoGP powerhouse, have been unable to drag themselves🌸 out of the woeful form which resulted in Marc♔ Marquez’s departure.

“They are in a big hole, a huﷺge hole,” Neil Hodgs🍸on analysed on TNT Sport.

“The way the🌞y’ve started the season is so far off the pace.

“In America, the four Hondas were the back four. It’s one thing to be slow, it’s another thing to be slow and craꦿsh.

“What that tells you is that the riders are still💝 pushing, still giving ♊it everything. And crashing.

“To crash out from last place almost🦂 sounds like a joke but that’s the p♉osition they are in.

“But they are throwing a lot at it, and that’s what they have to do no✨w.

“They have to write t꧅his season off. They might as well, in my opinion, try things every weekend. They have to. To fast-track.

“We know they’ve got concessions so they’ve got more testing anyway, but they might as ♈well use tyres for the raꦬce weekends as testing.

“Because the🦋y won’t finish anywhere in the championship, they are nowhere. That’s how I see it.🃏”

Sylvain Guintoli added: “In Austin it was ♉a disaster, Luca Marini was last in the sprint and the grand prix, and the other three riders crashed out of the sprint and the grand prix.

“Absolute disaster, they have a lot of work tღo do.

“How much time will they spend working on the current rules? Once the new rulebook comes out, would it be better to work🧜 on 2027 onwards?”

Hodgson replied: “In Austin, Marini was beaten by Alex Marquez who crashe🦄d then picked his bike up! Unhear𒆙d of.”

Even fellow strugglers Yamaha - at a disadvantage with two fewer bikes - are outperforming Hon🐽da at the moment.

The cr🅠ash-fest of last Saturday’s sprint race in Jerez enabled Repsol’s Joan Mir to fi𒁏nish ninth, and LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami and Johann Zarco to finish 10th and 11th, while Marini crashed out.

But disappointingly Marini was again t♏he last of the riders to complete the Spanish MotoGP. Mir came 🐭12th.