Santi Hernandez is essential in the entourage of a Marc Márquez who continues to dazzle us with his talent with each passing MotoGP season. While the driver demonstrates on the track, he is the one holding the controls in the box. He knows better than anyone this thoroughbred who has won four crowns in five campaigns spent among the elite. A boon for Honda which is already working on 2019 to extend the relationship. A priori, this should not pose a problem. And yet…
From the manager alzamora up to the interested MM93 itself, we assure that Honda remains the priority for the rest of the career after 2018. Certainly. But Santi Hernandez, who has been the chief mechanic of the prodigy since 2011, caused trouble with a little sentence that the HRC definitely does not want to hear… “ Marc has the talent, the strength and the ambition to win the World Championship with another bike. If I were a manufacturer, I would want Márquez on my team. I would like him to do on my bike what he is currently doing with the Honda ».
« He's a hard worker, he's ambitious, and he always gives what he's got. This is a driver any factory would want ". Winning with something else that revealed you is what plagues all great champions. Lorenzo went to Ducati to prove to himself that he could do as well as on the Yamaha. Valentino Rossi left Honda for Yamaha then Yamaha for Ducati before returning to Yamaha.
Now, the words of Santi Hernandez are also enough to annoy Honda, which wants us to say that it is primarily thanks to its bike that the results are there, more than due to the rider. A way of seeing things that had ended up exceeding the Doctor in his time. Furthermore, with the rise of KTM and the existence of a rich joint sponsor between the manufacturer and the rider, some see Mattighofen as MM93's next challenge. The future will tell, but at KTM, we are setting up our sector with the firm intention of only hearing about KTM…
