Aleix Espargaro spots Honda's "biggest problem" behind Marc Marquez

Aleix 🃏Espargaro identifies vibration issues as Honda's main issue ✱following MotoGP wild-card at Jerez.

Aleix Espargaro, Marc Marquez, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
Aleix Espargaro, Marc Marquez, 2025 Spanish MotoGP

When 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez overtook Honda wild-card 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro duri🧜ng his comeback in the Spanish MotoGP, the HRC test rider gra🅺bbed a golden opportunity to compare his RC213V against the dominant Ducati Desmosedici.

While Espargaro, making his Honda Grand Prix debut after retiring at the end o♔f last season, climbed from 19th to 13th, Marquez was carving back through the fieꦑld after an early crash.

While accepting that the tight and twisty Jerez layout masked some of the RC213V’s engine deficit - and agreeing “we 🎀have to keep working on the engine also” - the laps spent chasing Marquez indicated to Espargaro:

“The engine is not the b🐼iggest problem from my point of view.”

“The biggest problem is the vibration.

“Against Marꦦc, I was very focused during those two laps, trying to follow, trying to understand how to follow.

“In the hard braking, the Honda is good. But on the fast cꦆorners, it's impossible to follow the Ducati [due to the vibration].  

"So we are missing. We have to improve that.”

Aleix Espargaro, Marc Marquez, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
Aleix Espargaro, Marc Marquez, 2025 Spanish MotoGP

Espargaro took the chequered flag in 14th, only to be handed a post-race tyre pressure penalty, erasi﷽ng his first Honda points.

“I think I di🔜d solid job and during the weekend we had the same problems, especially with Joan and Johann, but also with Luca♉. 

"It's clear where to attack and I'm very happy𒁏 and proud to race with these colou🐲rs.”

Ev�💃�en the tyre pressure penalty had given Espargaro ideas for the future.

“Another thing that I need to improve on the Honda is the [tyre pressure] alarm system, it’s a bit complicated for the♔ riders!” Espargaro said.

“It's something that we have to make🍸 a little bit clearer… but [despite t🍌he post-race penalty] I will eat ice cream tonight!”

Espargaro is planning at least one further wild-card this season while Honda could homologate his prototype Jerez engine for at l꧃east some of the full-time riders at Le Mans this weekend.

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