This is a first in 2024: in Austria, Luca Marini has given up. Indeed, as crazy as it may seem, he was the only driver to have seen all the finishes since Brad Binder suffered a mechanical failure during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. The Italian suffered the same fate: betrayed by his bike, he had no other choice but to return to the box to have the problem examined. This does not help his points counter, still stuck at just one point since the Sachsenring.
Since the start of the year, the speed has not been theres. But if in addition, mechanical damage occurs, then there are not many elements left to hold on to. Luca Marini, as often, puts things into perspective after the race. "IThere's not much to say today. We had an issue with the bike that we need to explore further before the next race, I felt it from the start of the ordeal » he asserted.
Pick ourselves up and move onto the next one
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🟠 “Look at the whole weekend – which has been positive” @ Luca_Marini_97
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- Repsol Honda Team (@HRC_MotoGP) August 18, 2024
Honda is doing even worse than Yamaha, which is in its poorest year in its history; this shows the decline of the Japanese who can no longer compete with the Europeans. In the meantime, Marini wants to be optimistic. « Other than that, we had a very good and important weekend here. When we have something like this on Sunday, we need to step back and look at the whole weekend which was positive », but it is by listening to these sentences that we realize the difficulty in which Honda Repsol, once the greatest MotoGP team, finds itself.
Photo: HRC
From the Aragon Grand Prix, the races will come one after the other, and the overseas tour will soon begin. A period all the more difficult for Honda Repsol, which will be packing its bags with more questions than answers. There is still a little time to turn things around. « We now have a busy time with lots of work and many races until the end of the year » he concluded.
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2024 MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix result:
Classification credit: MotoGP.com
Cover photo: HRC
