After seeing the RC213V go from front to back in the space of a year at COTA, the four Honda MotoGP riders seemed to agree that something majo🐼r wasn’t working on the radically revised 🍃2024 machine.

Honda won last year’s Austin round with former LCR rider Alex Rins. But a year later the sole Honda ‘survivor’, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini, crossed the line in last place in both the Sprint (17th) and Gra﷽nd Prix (16th).

Repsol team-mate Joan Mir and LCR’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Takaaki Nakagami crashed out in both races, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco fell on Saturday before being forced to retire with an early technica🐼l problem on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the RCVs were also bottom of the timeshee𝓰ts for much of practice and qualifying.

“We see that we are very, very far,” Mir said after the Spri♚nt. “This is a track that was positive for this bike in💞 the past and now we don't have any positive.

“Last year it was a bike that was stopping and with brakes you were able to turn. Then w😼e [would start to] ask too much of this good part, and then start the crashes.

“But now you can’t make the difference even on that [🐈braking] part. So we are a bit lost bec𝓡ause we don't have an advantage in any area, at the moment.

“The good thing is that we have concessions. We have to take a completely different line in terms ꦓof development.”

Indeed, Honda, like Yamaha, can now chan🎃ge its eng🍃ine design during the season as part of the concession rules.

“[We must] try to bring everything new. Not only the engine,” explained Marini. “We’re stru🅰g🐻gling everywhere. We need to understand why everybody’s improved so much compared to last year.

“We’re missing something because the [2024] bike is very different. But not in a good way [here]. We lost the strongest 🌄point of last year’s bike and gained something [by reducing] the weak point compared to last year. But we gained not enough.”

After Sunday’s race - w𒁃hen he had quipped “Luca is a survivor!” - Mir confirmed that Honda has a revised engine in the pipeline “for this season.”

Exactly when tha🐭t new engine will debut is no🐷t clear.

However, Mir labelled today’s (Fri♛day’s) private test session at Montmelo, where he will ride alongside Marini and HRC test rider Stefan Bradl, as “🔴very important”.

“W🌠e have a test in Montmelo that will be very, very important and then in Jerez we have another [test]. There we will understand if we made a step or not,” Mir said.

A downbeat Nakagami warned that multiple areas of 💛weakness mean there is unlikely to be one quick-fix solution to the COTA woes.

“At the moment, I'm di⛄sappointed about the performance of everything,” said the Japanese. “The bike, we are slower than last year, this is absolute🐼ly impossible to understand.

“I cannot say where this loไw potential comes from. Maybe from the engine, and one [new] engine solves the problem and everything. I hope so!

“Butꦛ at the moment🐻 I don't feel this, because only [changing] the engine cannot solve the balance, and the front feeling, or rear grip... There's too many problems at the moment.”

Team-mate Zarco put on a brave face.

“I'm still positive, we don't need to be pessimistic because we knew that it's going to be difficult with this really new project,” said the Frenchman,🍸 who has arrived as a race winner from Pramac Ducati.

“Honda changed so many things and it's easy to say we need time, but this is it. Because on the races where Hond𓆉a was performiꩵng well [before], at the moment, we did worst.

“When we compare to the other bike, we clearly see that 𒁏something is missing. I cannot go into the technical explanation because it's not my🌼 work [but] I tried to give my best and I did this weekend.

“There are no secrets on the technical side, jus🐷t things to understand and we have the capacity of the people to understa🌄nd it.

“But maybe we need another way to see things...”

Yamaha is also on track at Montmelo ahead of next weekend’s Spanish MotoG📖P, albeit only with factory test rider Cal Crutchlo🃏w.