Luca Marini reveals ‘test’ plan after Honda’s grim Portimao sprint
"We need to use this ti🤡me on track to under🐼stand the 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 test to devel🍸op their bike.
Honda endured a h📖orrible Saturday in Portimao, qualifying in the back four grid positions. Marini lined up 22nd.
Joan Mir’s 14th-place finish💙 in the sprint was as good as it got for the struggl🤡ing Japanese manufacturer.
Repsol 🐭Honda teammat🌼e Marini was 18th, the last of the riders to finish the race.
LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami was 17th, while J🎀ohann Zarco did not fi✅nish.
Marini admitted that he was half-racing a꧙nd half-testing on Sa൲turday.
“Both. At this moment, we cannot fight for points in a sprint race📖,” he said.
“So we need to use th♈🌳is 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 spr🌳int is good to understand more things, to ꧂have more information, to prepare better for the race tomorrow.”
He in🅰sisted: “Also, in the sprint, I am not going slow. I’m pushing 100% because I𝄹 want to beat my teammate.”
But Mari෴ni, Honda’s replacement for Marc Marquez, 🐈was unable to do that.
He deta𒀰iled his issues: “Maybe to༒ugher than expected.
“We tried a different setting for the sprint. We needed to test it, to🐬 try 12 laps in a row with🐠 the same tyres.
“We found something on the exit of corners. But we lost a lot on entry and🥀 turning.
“For sure, it was not the perfect comb🔯ination. We need to analyse the data to make it better for tom𒅌orrow.”
Marini said about qualifying: “We are not strong for a time attack because of a lackꦓ of gri🔯p in the rear.”
Yet, despite a tor𒉰rid Saturday, Marini insists the data-gathering expedition was beneficial.
“But, the sprint was positive,” he said.
“We need to๊ use every lap on track for information f🀅or the engineers to develop the bike.
“Because ]we are in a] rush. Everyone wants to be more competitive, f💖ighting for better positions.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything 🎃from American sports, to football, to F1.
