The crucial reason behind Honda’s impressive rise this season has been identif💞ied.

Romano Albesiano, their new technica🙈l director, has been showere🌱d with plaudits for his input.

Albesiano, formerly of Apr✃ilia, started work at Honda at the beginning of 2025. He is widely regarded as a m🎃ajor coup for help the struggling project.

Results have swiftly improved on the race track.

“They’ve gone full circle now. They have ♔made such a step,” TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson said.

“I’d say it’s 90 percent [Albesiano].

“Honda have been lost for years, and with Marc M🗹arquez.

“They brought Albesiano in from Aprilia, who knows exactl🍬y what [Aprilia] have done෴.

“He’ll say ‘don’t go down that road, do this…’

“‘If you want feeling on the front, tweak this…’

“Whatever he has said, has worked.”

Honda 'found half-a-second' in MotoGP revival

Factory Honda rider Joan Mir, who was disa𒐪ppointed at times in his first year with the manufacturer because of his lack of competitiveness, has shot further forwarꦑds this season.

Although he crashed out, Mir waཧs seventh in the sprint race at the Americas MotoGP. Teammate Luca Marini finished P8 in the grand prix.

In Argentina, Johann Zarco was 💞P6 while Mir and Marini were also in the top 10, results which are a far cry from 2024.

“It feels like an♐ eternity,” Hodgson said about Honda’s rise.

“What I like about Joan Mir i♔s that you know how he feels. He’s not🌊 PR savvy or false. If he’s miserable, then he’s miserable!

“But they’re on their way. They🐓’vꦬe found half-a-second this year.

꧒“The key word he said was: the feeling on the front.

“When you have weird crashes, it zaps 🅷your confidence. You can’t save them because you’re not expecﷺting it.”

But those🌳 incidents which blighted Mir for the past two years are no longer happening.

Suddenly, with LCR’s Zarco also in the mix, the powerhouse of Honda is catching the eye again for the right reason⭕s.

W꧅ith Albesiano at the helm of their technical department, optimism is sudden🐬ly high for where Honda could go.