Luca Marini: “I tried to learn Japanese!” - Exclusive

“I tried 𓃲to learn Japanese, I won't give up, but it's super difficult!”

Luca Marini
Luca Marini

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini’s determination to help revive Honda’s MotoGP project includes trying to learn Japanese.

Communication be♊tween Japanese manufact⭕urers and their European race teams is critical, especially when interpreting rider feedback for bike development.

“When I arrived here, many people told me ‘communication with the Japanese is more difficult. Try to explain yourself in a very clear and calm way’,” Marini said in an interview with wuqian0821.com.

“So I do that in the best way I can.

“I tried to learn J🐈apanese, I🎃 won't give up, but it's super difficult!”

While the Italian’s Japanese is a work in progress, he has es🐓tablished strong communication with the HRC enginee꧒rs.

“At the beginning, it was necessary to build confidence betwee🥀n us. But now they really trus✤t me and I really appreciate this responsibility,” Marini said.

“I try to give very precise fe🥀edback to them, also because what a rider feels on the bike is difficult sometimes to see on the data.

“I really appreciate their culture and their way of working. It’s a🌳bout trying to create a good connection, to also understand how they think.

“Because sometimes it's a little bit different, because of their culture and their experi🌠ences. So we try to all be on the same side.”

Luca Marini, 2024 Italian MotoGP
Luca Marini, 2024 Italian MotoGP

Marini joined Repsol Honda this season in the aftermath of ꦕeight-time world champion Marc Marquez’s departure to Gre⭕sini Ducati.

The six-time Moto2 winner was coming off his best MotoGP campaign with two podiums, two poles and eighth in the world championship for older brother Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Ducati te✨am.

But Repsol Hond𝔍a is in a very different position from when Rossi won back-to-back titles for the team, with 20 race wins, in 20✨02 and 2003.

Marini too🔥k until round nine to score a single point, in the aftermath of tyre pressure penalties at Sachsenring. But his results took a clear step forward after Misano.

Marini, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:who had been ‘really angry’ at ﷽early season rumours he wanted a way out of the team, scored points in five out of the last seven rounds, including a pair of 12th places.

The other two💖 GPs saw him caught up in a first-lap pile-up at Mandalika - one of only four accidents for Marini this year, the lowest number of falls by any full-time rider - and 16th place in the Barcelona finale.

Luca Marini, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP
Luca Marini, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP

"Always be focused on the target: Bringing Honda back to the top"

Asked if his debut Honda season had been as he had♊ imagined, Marini replied: “I want to start by saying it's a really positive season for me.

“I could i🧜mprove myself a lot and also my riding. I'm a better rider and a better person. So for this, I'm fully satisfied about my personal gr🌞owth this year.

“I expected to struggle a little🐈 bit less, sincerely, at the beginning of the season,” he admitted.

“While it was really tough, Iౠ never gave up and worked in a very good way wi🦋th all my team and the Japanese engineers.

“Now we’ve reached, for me, a goo🔥d level. For sure, the performance is still not enough, but we have to look at where we started and see all the jumps ahead we have made.”

LCR’s Johann Zarco was Honda’ꦏs top rider, in 17th overall and with a best race result of eighth. Takaaki Nakagami was 19th, Joan Mir 21st and Marini 22nd.

Honda remᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚained last in the MotoGP constructors’ standings, despite access to new technical concessions.

But the quartet were playing catch-up from the opening round after an engine design picked at the opening Sepa⛦ng test proved a mistake.

“We've been a bit unlucky because the engine character looked pretty good in the Sepang test but then gave a lot of unexpected problems,” M꧅arini’s team-mate Mir explained.

Marini emphasised t꧟he need not to be distracted by such setbacks.

“I think on🧸e of the most important things was to stay calm and to keep motivation high,” he sജaid.

“Just try to enjoy every situation, even if the re𒐪sult was bad.

“Try to find something to see in a positive way. And always be very focused on the target, to bring Ho꧒nda back to the top.

“I knew this will take time, but we’ve ✅started to take now a g🌳ood direction.”

LCR Hondas, Repsol Hondas, Misano 2024
LCR Hondas, Repsol Hondas, Misano 2024

Although professional racing can be selfish sport, Mar♔ini insisted he also felt ‘satisfaction’ when other Honda riders benefited from changes he had requested.

“Every time the Japanese bring us a new update, at my request, that works better also for th✤e other ridersဣ, it gives me a lot of satisfaction,” he said.

“Because we all have the same target.

“We must keep working hard like this and 🎃I’ll keep trying to show my talent and my potential on and off the racetr🐭ack.”

Marini will have a new crew chiefꦇ for his second HRC season with Cristhian Pupulin, who worked with Jack Miller at Ducati and KTM, replacing Giacomo Guidotti.

With the winter testing ban in place for full-time riders, Marini will start his 2025 MotoGP preparations at the Sepang Shakedown test on🃏 January 31.

Luca Marini, Jerez Test, November 2024
Luca Marini, Jerez Test, November 2024

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