“No excuses for Honda!” Joan Mir and Alex Rins? “If they don’t get lost…”

The gap between Honda and Ducati is “huge”, says Livio Suppo, but he has backed Joan Mir and Alex Rins to succeed in their new environment “if they don’t get lost”.
Joan Mir, Valencia MotoGP test, 8 November
Joan Mir, Valencia MotoGP test, 8 November

Former Ducati and Honda chief Suppo was in charge at Suzuki last year, where🔯 he led Mir and Rins.

Honda look strong on paper - their 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP 2023 rider line-up pairs Mir with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez at Repsol Honda, and Rins with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Takaaki Nakagami at LCR - but last year their ride🐲rs were undermined by the performance of𓃲 the bike.

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"Both Joan and Alex only have experience with Suzuki in MotoGP," said Suppo. "They’v🔯e only been able to ride an inline-f♑our engine, which riders in the paddock will tell you is easier to ride than the V4. 

“But if they can take that out of their minds and approach the bike as a bike, I believe that will help༒ them. 

“It won’t be easy for sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚure as they have a very difficult reference inside because Marc is Marc. It’s 10 years that nobody has been able to score more points than him over a season 🤡on the same bike. 

“The last time Honda won a race wi🙈thout Marc was ba🃏ck in 2017, which is a very long time.

"They have a difficult challenge in front of them, this is obvious. But I believe both can do it. They’re both super talented and with the right approach, the right miജndset, I believe they can have good seasons. 

“It depends on the bike, of course, but I have no doubt over the talent of both Joan and Alex. 🌞If they don’t get lost, that talent will show.

"They’ve botꦜh got two-year contracts with HRC. I think that’s enough time to get used🃏 to a new configuration and enough to prove that they are fast. Every year we start from zero and everyone has the same opportunity. 

“Even though the gap betwee🗹n Honda and Ducati, which is the best bike out there, is huge,ℱ I still think they can have a good season."

Alex Rins, Valencia MotoGP test, 8 November
Alex Rins, Valencia MotoGP test, 8 November

Honda scored zero points in a premier ⛎class ra🎶ce for the first time in 40 years in Germany last season.

Somehow Marquez, who missed six rounds to undergo surgery then returned while rehabbing his arm, was Honda’s highe𒆙st-placed rider in the MotoGP standi🧔ngs.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez has departed, linking up with Gresini Racing this yꦛear.

"Hondಌa now has two former world champions," Suppo saiไd.

"A rider who won two of the last threಞe races and Nakagami, wh♍o has proved he is far from a slow rider. 

“They don’t have any rookies, they don’t have anyo🦩ne there for other reasons. They have four good riders. 

“Three of them are able to win races, two of them win a championship, so they cannot blame the riders if the performance isn’t there. T൲here are no excuses.

ꦐ"Sometimes when the results don’t come it’s easy for the technicians to say 'yeah but the bike is good, look at Marc or Casey Stoner. The other riders are slipping, they’re feeling the pressure'. 

“But, on paper, they have a very strong line-up. We all know what those riders are able to do so if they can’t do what we know they can, the bike is a problem. You can b☂e sure that if the results don’t come, then the problem is clearly t🍷he bike."

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