Honda testing in Jerez: postponed until tomorrow…

The Repsol Honda team rented the Jerez de la Frontera circuit this Friday and Saturday to carry out tests. closed-door tests.

Unfortunately, the weather conditions did not allow the Iberian-Japanese team to ride in good conditions and, as a result, they preferred to abstain so as not to use up the capital of 5 days of private testing. annual allocated to its regular pilots.

A priori, the problem came neither from the rain, which had stopped since yesterday evening, nor from the wind which was zero today, nor from the temperature, which was 19° this afternoon.

So what ? Perhaps the thin layer of sand from the Sahara that fell yesterday (see photo above).

If this is the case, which we do not yet know, to remove it without running the motorcycles, then we use all available means. Thus, during the last private Honda test in Misano, we similarly avoided having Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa drive on the first day, while we dried the circuit behind the wheel of rental cars...

Photo taken yesterday: Tatsuki Suzuki