After the Irta test in Valencia 2022 Marc Marquez is very disappointed: the Honda RC213V has not made any steps forward in recent months.
Marc Marquez sounds an alarm bell in the Honda garage at the end of the Irta test of Valencia. After a third season marked by an arm injury and four humerus operations, and problems with diplopia, she expected to go to the 2022-2023 winter break with more optimism. But according to him, little and nothing has been done by the Honda engineers in view of the last tests in Misano and Valencia.
On Tuesday he just completed 50 laps on the track, a clear sign that the new material available was very little compared to expectations. There RC213V maybe he took a little step forward in feeling with the front, but he lost in other areas. Few and sterile updates to the frame, engine and aerodynamics have arrived in Valencia, not enough to think of aiming for the 2023 world title and coping with the excessive qualitative and quantitative power of Ducati.
Marc Marquez curries Honda and looks at Ducati
Given that the bulk of the new material will arrive in view of the Sepang test scheduled for February, the discontent of Marc Marquez rumbles loudly in the HRC garage. 2023 will be a crucial year for the destiny of the champion from Cervera, with a contract expiring at the end of 2024. The games risk getting complicated and Alex Marquez’s move to Ducati Gresini is seen as a prerequisite for a new adventure of the eight. times world champion. “With what has arrived we cannot think of winning a World Cup“, Summarized the ‘Atomic Ant‘
For his part, Marc will use the winter to physically get to the top next season, but Honda for his part he will have to do “not one, but two steps forward“. So far it has changed in several aspects without, however, offering a step forward. “I have already written a letter to Honda with my homework, what I would like to have from Honda in February… I’m not worried, but I’m realistic. When you wait for the Three Kings and the gift doesn’t arrive, well you don’t smile so much“.
On the track he only crossed paths with his brother Alex riding the Ducati Desmosedici GP. They assure each other that there will be no exchange of “private” information, but obviously this Red from Borgo Panigale is tempting even to a multiple champion of the caliber of Marc Marquez. “I followed him with Honda and he had a different riding style, but he seems fast, when you get a bike and it’s easy, times come right away. And it was a tenth from my time trial“.
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