Between Dovizioso and Honda, will 2021 be the reunion season? The Italian has indeed evolved under the Repsol colors in his career, sharing the box with Pedrosa while crossing the trajectory of Stoner, cohabitations which had not turned out to his advantage. But things have changed and, above all, Marc Marquez unfortunately seems destined for a long period of unavailability while Dovi has entered a sabbatical year. He is therefore available with his great experience. But his manager Simone Battistella points out that if there is a conjunction, the planets are still far from being aligned...
There is no smoke without fire and it smells scorched to Honda in view of a 2021 season that the brand fears will be a new one without its leader Marc Marquez. This year, whoever signed up 2024 with HRC was forfeited. And the condition of his injury to the right humerus, still worrying, does not reassure the Tokyo staff.
Honda, like nature, abhors a vacuum and cannot afford a new campaign reminiscent of its worst era dating back to 1982. The recourse seems to be the native of Forli, who has put himself in reserve from MotoGP while waiting for a project where he will feel better considered than during the eight years spent with Ducati.
'Dovizioso is not interested in a few races to keep Marquez's house warm'
However, the consideration is not detected by moving from the status of “ unemployed » as Dovi describes himself, as a freelancer, which would be his fate while waiting for the return of Marc Marquez. An evaluation that the manager Simone Battistella confirms in an interview with Corriere.it relayed by automotorinews : " there has been no contact so far. I think Honda wants to carefully evaluate Marc's condition before making a decision. Andrea is not interested in running a few races to keep Marquez's house warm ».
No replacement role therefore. A blockage that gives meaning to this idea of third Repsol Honda motorcycle which however poses problems with regulations Dorna which does not consider, through its president Carmelo Ezpeleta, as a viable hypothesis. So either Honda focuses on the Italian pilot, i.e. “ marriage is not to be done "… And Honda finds himself back at square one.
