Alberto Puig, team manager of the Repsol Honda Team, assessed the first part of the 2024 MotoGP season for the World Cup organizer’s official communication channels. Of the 11 teams competing in the Championship, the last two in the general classification are what motorcycles from the Japanese manufacturer are doing. In addition, they also occupy the last place in the classification of constructors.
Ducati, leader, added 315 points to Honda’s 24. Aprilia was second with 175; KTM is third with 165 points, while Yamaha is fourth with 48 points. In general pilots, Dani Pedrosa, who made a wildcard at Jerez, he had more points than Luca Marini -seven Spaniards and one Italian-.
Faced with this fact, Alberto Puig admitted that “It’s not easy, we’re not where we want to be”. However, the team manager points out that the factory is “trying to get there, but we are still very far from our usual positions.”
“The lap times show that we are not yet, we know that. We are doing everything possible in the shortest possible time. We are trying to use the concessions and are doing a lot of testing, but we still have to take big stepsexplained Puig.
They know what the problems are
In the conversation, the former rider said that “we have to improve the bike. We know what we lackbut we haven’t found any solution that solves this problem. We know what our biggest problems are and we clearly understand where they are.but we’re not 100% sure how to fix them.”
“For the second half of the year, we will bring new parts with the aim of making it work, but we have no guarantees that they will work at this time. At the beginning of the year we had planned that, for the second half of the season, we would have different things to try; not small things, let’s say bigger things. I hope we can take that step and improve. At what level? “It’s something we’re not clear on yet, but we should see some improvement.”
Alberto Puig concludes that they just need to “trust”, because “If we don’t have to go home”.
Source: La Verdad
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