History will remember at this stage of the 2022 season that Honda will have experienced its worst sporting and technical period in the major Grand Prix category when Alberto Puig was at the helm of the brand's official team. A mark that the Spaniard obviously does not wish to leave in history, but given the current situation at HRC, a crisis so deep that it convinced Alex Marquez to change direction, it will be complicated to upset the given. Marc Marquez is no longer there to cover him, and the Spaniard gets even more annoyed when it is pointed out to him that a rumor in the corridor is starting to gain momentum: his replacement by a certain Davide Brivio…
The summer break is more than welcome for the troops Honda exhausted in an endless retreat in the standings of the current Grand Prix championships. We are no longer very far from the debacle because as admitted Nakagami, no one knows which way to take a problem that seems general.
Alex Marquez spoke of a “ factory that went astray ”, which is a dramatic assessment for a leading global manufacturer. Even the brand's test driver, Stefan Bradl went there with his corrosive comment: “ the situation at Honda is still difficult. We do not yet know where development should go. We are completely in the fog... I'm curious what will happen during the summer vacation ».
Alberto Puig: “if we knew what was happening we would have done something already"
In the middle of it all, there is a Alberto puig who must be accountable for his high functions on the ground. HAS Assen, he showed a certain nervousness which was not appropriate. We thus read his remarks on Motoracing : " the truth is that we don't know today. If we knew what was happening we would have done something already " admits Puig to the Spanish newspaper 'AS'. “ At the start of the year it looked like the bike might work, but then things went wrong and we're trying to figure out why ».
« I think we won't have a clean slate next year, but we have to change a lot of things », adds the team manager of Repsol Honda. Much hope is placed in Marc Marquez and his nose for the champion. “ There are no complications after the operation, he is optimistic, I want to think that this time everything will be fine and we will be able to see him back in good shape ". But the subject makes the same nervous Alberto puig who adds: “ we all need Marc Marquez, you journalists and people in general too ". But in the meantime, a never-forgotten name returns to circulation in the paddock: that of Davide Brivio, which would be in the viewfinder of Honda, not very happy with the management of the drivers offered by Puig...
