At Honda, the crisis is such that we seem ready to change everything on the drivers side by 2023. Marc Marquez will obviously not move, with his contract until 2024 and having more than demonstrated that he is essential at HRC . But next year, neither Alex Marquez nor Pol Espargaró and Taka Nakagami should be seen again on the reluctant RC213V…
Honda is going to clean up its pilot workforce and, given the economic situation, this would seem like a disavowal. However, they are not unworthy, paying with their own hands more often than not for the weaknesses, not to mention the defects, of their motorcycle cobbled together in Tokyo. And if HRC decides to review its workforce only in its stand and not in its management or among its engineers, this orientation takes on all the trappings of injustice.
We will therefore see what happens next, but the first trend among Honda wants 2022 drivers, Marc Marquez apart, will not be those of 2023 and beyond. It must be said that two Grand Prix winning drivers, one of whom was World Champion in 2020, are looking for work due to the fact that their shop Suzuki will close. It is of course Joan mir andAlex Rins. One almost admitted in Germany that the deal was done with Repsol Honda while the other promises an announcement within two weeks which will put him at LCR.
Let's start with alex rins who admitted to being in a » second phase of negotiation » with the LCR Honda. It would even be on the verge of closing and, in the next 15 days, the signing of the current Suzuki pilot would be made official.
Joan Mir: “ driving for Repsol Honda is a big challenge, but it's not a bad option«
To Joan mir, it is he himself who speaks about it in remarks spotted on Todocircuito : " I am sure that if we could find this harmony and this feeling within this Suzuki team, we will find it in a different team. In my heart I will always be a Suzuki rider ". Then he adds: " it is true that It's not easy to team up with Marc Marquez. This is something that, for all drivers in the paddock, is a very difficult challenge. Marc is a driver from whom we can learn a lot. We will see ».
And he concludes: driving for Repsol Honda is a big challenge. But it's not a bad option ". But then, where will the demobilized trio go? Pol Espargaro will find both the KTM and Tech3, Taka Nakagami will stay as a test pilot and see his young compatriot Ai Ogura continue the Japanese HRC story in MotoGP wheras'Alex Marquez, and this is the sensation you would find on a Ducati Gresini. With his brother Marc, he will finally be able to talk about interesting things... In fact, even if it means recovering the best skills abandoned by Suzuki, Honda should take advantage of this to also take back the GSX-RR…
