Honda is undoubtedly working in the shadows to develop an RC213V which would finally be worthy of the reputation of the brand which is still the world's leading manufacturer. A status that does not appear with this review of the 2022 MotoGP season where the winged coat of arms was only seen twice on a podium that Ducati conquered on 32 occasions. But HRC also works by reviewing the organization charts. And indeed, there will be changes in the stands…
This is new proof that things are moving at Honda and one more element which should reassure a Marc Marquez who is firmly awaiting his employer at Sepang, a track which will mark the return of MotoGP in the 2023 financial year with the first test of the year. Certainly, the eight-time World Champion is not directly impacted because of who will follow, but what matters is to detect an ongoing dynamic.
Let's start with the Repsol stand where Santi Hernandez unsurprisingly remains the chief engineer of Marc Marquez. On the other hand, it will no longer be Ramon Aurin who will take care of his teammate. He had replaced Mike leitner to second Pedrosa, Lorenzo, Alex Marquez et Pol Espargaro. But he won't know Joan Mir which passes into the hands of Giacomo Guidotti. The latter is the older brother of Francesco who works as team manager of Red Bull KTM. He was in the service of Nakagami at LCR. Who will have to discover a new box accomplice…
Honda reorganizes its ranks in MotoGP
And the Japanese will work with Klaus Nohles who was responsible for developing the test driver Stefan bradl. A function which will return to the aforementioned Ramon Aurin who therefore joins the Honda team MotoGP Test. Finally, the Belgian Christoph “Beefy” Bourguignon will work as team leader for the double winner of the past season, alex rins.
On the Japanese executive side, at the head of the RC213V project we will find Shinichi Kokubu, en lieu and in place of Takeo Yokoyama. The former technical director of Honda was in fact assigned a new position at the Tokyo headquarters. Finally Tetsuhiro Kuwata remains Director General of HRC and Shinya Wakabayashi president of HRC.
