The crucial reason🧔 behind Honda’s impressive rise this season has been identified.

Romano Albesiano, their🌠 new techn🍌ical director, has been showered with plaudits for his input.

Albesiano, formerly of Aprilia, started ꦕwork at Honda at the beginning of 2025. He is widely regarded as a major coup for help the struggling project.

Results have swiftly improved on the race track.

“They’ve gone full circle now. Thꦕey have made such a step,” TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson said.

“I’d say it’s 90 percent [Albesiano].

“Honda have been lost for years, and with Marc Marquez♑.

“They broughꩵt Albesiano in from Aprilia, who knows eꦅxactly what [Aprilia] have done.

“He’ll say ‘don’t go down that road, do this…’

“‘If you want feeling on the front, tweak this…’

“Whatever he has said, has worked.”

Honda 'found half-a-second' in MotoGP revival

Factory Honda rider Joan Mir, who was d🧸isappointed at times in his first year with the manuꦍfacturer because of his lack of competitiveness, has shot further forwards this season.

Although 🧸he crashed out, Mir was seventh in the sprint race at the Americas MotoGP. Teammate Luca Marini finished P8 in the grand prix.

In Argentina, Johann Zarco was P6 while Mir and Marini were also in the top 10, results which are a far crﷺy from 2024.

“It feels like an eter꧒nity,” Hodgson 💃said about Honda’s rise.

“What I like about Joan Mir is that you know how he feels. He൩’s not PR savvy or false. If he’s miserable,⛄ then he’s miserable!

“But they’re on their way. They’ve found half-a-🃏second this year.

“The key word he said was: the feeling ꦚon ꦉthe front.

“When you have weir🌞d crashes, it zaps your confidence. You can’t save them because you’re not expecting it.”

But those incidents whi🧔ch blighted Mir for the past two years are no longer happen꧂ing.

Suddenly, with LCR’s Zarco also in the mix, the powerhouse of Honda is catching ⛄the eye again for the right reasons.

With Albesia♑no at the helm of their technical department, optimism is suddenly high for where Honda could go.