Luca Marini reveals ‘test’ plan after Honda’s grim Portimao sprint
"We need to use this time on track to🌠 understand th🐼e behaviour of the bike," says 18th-placed Luca Marini
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini insists that Honda used the Portuguese MotoGP sprint race partly as a tesℱt to develop th🥂eir bike.
Honda endured a horrible Saturday in Portimไao, qualifying in the back four grid positions. Mar♛ini lined up 22nd.
Joan Mir’s 14th-place finish in the sprint was as good as it got for the struggling Jꦇapanese manufacturer.
Repsol Honda teammate Marini was 18th, the last of the riders to f⛦inish the race.
LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagam꧒i was 17th, while🌠 Johann Zarco did not finish.
Marini admitted that he was half-racing and half-tes♛ting on Saturday.
“Both. At t꧑his moment, we cannot fight for po💛ints in a sprint race,” he said.
“So we need to use 𓃲this time on track to understand the behaviour of the bike.
“Now, it’s really difficult to work🙈 on Fridays. You do only five or six laps in a row, no more.
“So you cannot see the tyres. You start, 🅰and you stop…
“The sprint is good to understand more things, to ha🦩ve more information, to prepare better for the race tomorrow.”
He insisted: “Also, in the sprint, I am not going slow. I’m 💖pushing 100%🌜 because I want to beat my teammate.”
But Mar🌳ini, Honda’s replacement for Marc Marquez, was unable to do that.
He detailed🀅 his issue🉐s: “Maybe tougher than expected.
“We tried a𒐪 different setting for the sprint. We needed to test 🧸it, to try 12 laps in a row with the same tyres.
“We found so💎mething on the exit of 𒆙corners. But we lost a lot on entry and turning.
“For sure, it was n༺ot the perfect combination. We need to analyse the data to make it better for tomorrow.”
Marini said about qualify♉ing: “We are not strong for a time attack because of a lack of grip in the rear.”
Yet, despite a torrid Saturday, Marini insists the data-gathering expedition wa🌳s beneficial.
“But, the sprint was positive,” he said.
“We need to use evꩲery lap on track for inf𝓰ormation for the engineers to develop the bike.
“Because ]we are in a] rush. Everyone wants to be more competitive🐓, fighting for𝐆 better positions.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Spဣorts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
