Marc Marquez tells Honda to “swallow your pride” as new tech boss is hired

"Hiring an engineer who can make you😼 skip steps is cheap for a facto✱ry"

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has discuss💦ed his f▨ormer team Honda’s revised strategy in hiring a new technical director.

Romano Albesiano - who helped transform Aprilia from MotoGP’s slowest bike into a grand prix - wi🐼ll join Honda in 2025 to oversee their technical dep🌠artment.

It is the latest big step taken by the struggling Japanese manufacturer to restore ꧋their lost competitiveness.

And it a notable change of philosophy 🧸to hire a European into a crucial, senior job.

"I didn't know,” Marquez, who walked out on Honda 🍬last year due to frustrations with th𒊎e project, told on Friday at the Japanese MotoGP.

“For me, Honda has the largest infrastructure, 🥂the largest budget in the paddock.

“The꧂ issue is that, in the end, those who decide are people, they are humans, three o🀅r four people who are in charge of the project.

“I've always said it: hiring an engineer w💙ho can make you skip steps is cheap for a factory.

“And I think that's one more step in the technical point that Honda is at right now: trying to cut the times to get back to the highest l🌺evel, which they are going to achieve.

“But if you can cut the times by hiring engin🤪eers from other factories who give you immediate so🌞lutions, without having to investigate, that is cheap for a factory.

“I have always had that concept, no matter how much they ask you for another technician, no matter how much the engineer asks yo♎u for more, it is cheap, because it is much more expensive to try parts.

“In the end, you find on𒉰e, yes. But for me it is a success [to hire a new technical director]. I don't know what the engineer is like, but it is a success if they are going in that direction."

Marquez continued: "The issue is that pride in competition is bad. In🎃 competition, there is a moment when you will win, when you will lose.

“When you lose, you have to swallow your pride and kno💃w how to understand that others are doing better.

“There are people who get it before; There are people who understand it later, but, for me, it's not a la꧟ck of pride, it's intelligence.

“If you see that other factories are ๊doing that, in the case of Yamaha, for example, and they are cutting times before you, do the same.”

Marquez has retained a dignified relaღtionship with his ex-team since joining Gresin💜i Ducati this year.

When he won hཧis first grand prix on a Ducati, he visited his former Honda colleagues to share the celebrations wit𝓰h them.

Honda’s announcement that t🦩hey have recruited Aprilia’s Albesiano for next year is an🍌 intriguing move.

𓄧Aleix Espargaro will also swap Aprilia racing duties for a Honda test role, meaning he will work with Albesiano agai♛n.

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