Tetsuhiro Kuwata is the late♛st senior figure to leave HRC's MotoGP project.

According to , Kuwata, currently ‘General Manager Rac🗹e Operations Division’ will be moved to the four-wheel side and be replaced by Taichi Honda, from the Off-road/Dakar department.

Repsol Honda told wuqian0821.com that Kuwata’s change of role wa꧋s ‘part of the normal rotation of HRC management’.

Joining Honda Motor in 2000, Kuwata arrived at HRC in 2011. He was promoted to his current role in the aftermath of Shuhei Nakamoto’s retirement five ye☂ars later.

Kuwata’s duties include o🃏verseeing all of HRC’s racing activities ‘from MotoGP to the Dakar’.

His exit from the MotoGP project follows that of 🐲HRC t🤡echnical director Shinichi Kokubu and technical manager Takeo Yokoyama.

After just race one win in the last three years, and the loss of Marc Marquez, 2024 i⛄s being billed as the start of a new MotoGP era for Honda, which has also revamped its Re💃psol race livery.