Having gone two complete seasons without a MotoGP victory, and lost star rider Marc Marquez, R💯epsol Honda are being careful about their𓆉 2024 goals.

But a ‘solid foundation’ at the Sepang test, combined with🌜 new development opportunities from the revised concessions system, means team manager Alb🤡erto Puig is expecting a step in competitiveness during the second half of the year.

“The bike has changed a lot [since 2023]🅷,” Puig said.

“We made some real improvements on the engine, the weight and the delivery of the power. But of course, we need to keep worki🙈ng.

“The Sepang test was very important b🧸ecause we could find a direction. We had a lot of people in Sepang, they made a b❀ig effort to understand the direction and also the riders gave us really good precise indications.

“We think we know where we have to work. We have these concessions now which are really important and we ﷽will try to maxꩲimise and utilise them as much as possible.

“The motorbike could change a lot between now and Septemb⛄e🥃r or October because we will see some important evolutions [during the season].

“We have a clear target and aim to be competitive, probably not in the firs𝓡t races, but in the second half of the year. We expect and🅠 we want that our bike will be much more efficient.

“Finally, the goal of all this is to go back to winning mode and how to do it is with a lot of motivatio꧅n and will to improve.”

New signing Luca Marini also hopes to be fighting for🌳 RCV po꧟diums after the summer break.

“The first target is to try to give my feedback in the best way possible, be precise and be clear with the engineers, so they can bring us something bette🉐r every race,” he said.

“Try to improve the bike enough to arrive around half season with a good package. Competitive enough to fight for podiums. Sure it will be not so easy. We nee💞d time. But this is the target.”

Although Repꦫsol Honda only took one podium, with Marquez at Phillip Island, last season, LCR's Alex Rins broke the RC213V win drought at COTA.

Yamaha, winless last year, will also have access to technical concessions this season, which include private testing with race riders, exemption 🦩from the engine design freeze and more aerodynamic updates.