Massive data summarizing the Honda crisis

Since Valentino Rossi won the Sachsenring race in 2009 by 99 thousandths with his teammate Lorenzo and 2 “899 against Dani Pedrosa, Honda has not survived another victory at the Saxon circuit. From 2010 to 2012 they won with Dani Pedrosa and since 2013 has passed the baton to his new teammate Marc Márquez who has won the next eight races held in the current stronghold of the German MotoGP GP.But this Sunday there was massive information summarizing the current crisis at Honda, none of its four riders have made it to the MotoGP World Championship to score for the first time in 40 years.

Since its leader Marc Márquez was out of the game after the last Catalan GP recovered from his fourth operation on his right arm, the weight of Honda’s results is in the hands of three official riders who did not ensuring their continuity, especially on their respective teams. by 2023.

This Sunday problems with Honda began with Alex Márquez leaving in the seventh lap because the rear holeshot had been attached since the start and he had to ride as if his motorcycle had been “chopped”, he exclaimed into Dazn’s microphones. . On the same lap, Taka Nakagami fell when he fought for the tenth place. And the massive punch Pol Espargaró made on Friday in the second of his two crashes seven minutes apart in FP1, in which the left side of the rib was affected, prompted 44 to retire on lap 23 when he was defeated by over 25 “with leader Quartararo.

Only tester Stefan Bradl finished the race, covering the loss of Marc Márquez, and never even scored in his home GP -16th at 52 “040 from the head and 12” from the rider ahead of him-. And he ended up denouncing “I burned my right leg, as well as my foot, because the very hot air came out. I think it was the heat from the machine, and something like this was unacceptable in the way it transfers to the body. So, a very sad day for me, for us in general. But this is a situation that is really unacceptable “.

It would be necessary to use the newspaper library and specifically return to the French GP in Nogaro in 1982 to see the last time Honda failed to score in a premier class race and this was because the gold wing factory decided to boycott the this appointment due to lack of security. Honda had 633 consecutive races scoring premier class points, from Jarama’1982 to Catalunya’2022, a streak that was broken by one of its feudal friends.

Late to the builders after renewing his motorcycle

The drama for the Repsol Honda and LCR Honda teams is another year they will have to present themselves to the HRC leadership without being able to contribute even a single positive result beyond Pol Espargaró’s third place in the inaugural Qatar GP after renew from top to bottom. RC213v, a clearly failed project.

After 10 Grand Prix, and another ten remaining, the first in the classification is Marc Marquez, who was also out of four races, and twelfth, 112 points behind Quartararo. They are behind the constructors, 140 points behind Ducati and the team Repsol Honda is eighth and LCR Honda is tenth, 97 and 133 points, respectively, behind leader Monster Energy Yamaha.