‘24 Honda is 8 kilos lighter; "we would very likely have retained Marc Marquez”
Reports in Spain clai♊m Honda have taken huge steps forward - but Marc Ma🐭rquez had already decided to go

Repsol Honda reportedly think that their 2024 prototype bike is competitive enough to have kept 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez - but it arrived too late.
Team memb🅘ers believe that, if they could have delivered the developed bike at the September test in Misano, Marquez would not have quit, r♓eport.
"We would ve🧔ry likely hꦛave retained Marquez and, without a doubt, we would have started to make up for lost time,” the report quotes an anonymous member of the team.
The prototype used at the postseason test was 8 kilos lighter, it is reported, a major ad🌸vancement.
In Misano in September, Honda bosses in Japan and team manager Alberto Puig “decided to launch the design, construction and tuning of a motorcycle” with the intent🧔ion of convincing Marquez.
But Honda staff feel Marquez made his decision to leave after being disappointed by the bike given to him at the September test🐠.
His decision became official in October.
By the time Repsol Honda’s 2024 prototype was ready for the postseason test in Valencia, Mar💛quez had already joined Gresini Ducati.
"Marc had b♛een asking for two years for them to make a bike shorter and, above all, to slim it down, to take weight off and they never listened to him,” the report writes.
“And now, i♊n two months, they design and build a n༺ew bike that, possibly, after testing it in the Misano test, would have made him doubt and perhaps, now, we would still have the best rider in history.”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini replaced him and, along with Joan Mir, profited from the Hond𒅌a which is being tipped as a major improvement from last season’s.
The new 2024 Honda is "totally new: it is lower, it has a new engine, suspensions, aerodynam🤡ics... it is completely new,ও" the report cites sources from within Honda.
"Slimming a MotoGP bike down 8 kilos, in two months, is a titanic tas🎃k, believe me."
The complete turna💫round of a brand new bike in just two months is seen as proof of Honda’s power, and its🐽 potential to return to the front of MotoGP.
A separate source who has since left Honda reportedly said: "If you take 8 kilos off a bike in just two months, if you put your mind to it, you're capable of makiꦏng a winning bike.
"Even if you don't do anything else to the bike, which they have, when you lose eight kilos of a MotoGP bike, the bike runs more, accelerates more and better, pulls a lot more, brakes less abruptly, lies down a lot 🅘more and, above all, it becomes a bike easier to ride, whatever the style is."

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ev🦋erything from American sports, to football, to F1.