168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini’s run of four consecutive top-ten finishes has quietly made him the most consistent Honda rider in the 2025 MotoGP season so far.

But ahead of the French Grand Prix at Le Mans, the Italian is determined to convert that race-day rhyt𝐆hm into stronger Saturdays, with Q2 qualification now the clear priority.

“Let’s hit the ground running and focus on getting into Q2 to prime ourselves for the races,” ♛said Marini. “Each weekend we have been able to build our pace and take steps throughout - we need to keep doing this.”

Marini believes Le Mans’ heavy braking zones will p✤lay to the strengths of RC213V.

“There is a lot of heavy braking in Le Mans, which should suit us,” he aꦯdded. “I am looking forward to having another weekend of good battles on track like in Jerez.”

While Marini’s race pace ജcontinues to impress, tyre-related vibration remains a limiting factor, particularly on used rubber.

“In my case, when I have a new tyre, I don’t have so much vibration🅺, it’s manageable.💜 But when the tyre drops, I start to enter sliding in every corner, also in the fast corners, and this causes this vibration every time,” he explained.

“If we were able to find a little bit more rear grip, we will have also less v🌞ibration. Because this is always correlated in my opinion.”

Yamaha "super strong" in time attacks

More rear grip would also help Honda - the big early-season improver - get back on terms w🌼ith Yam⛎aha, which has vaulted to second in the constructors’ standings after Fabio Quartararo’s Jerez podium heroics.

“What is true is that Yamaha, on the time attack, is always super strong. They have a lot of💙 grip when they put the new rear tyre,” said Marini. “While for me, when we put new tyres, we don’t feel this extra grip.

“W🍸e are strong more in race pace, in my opinion. And if we are able to take out the vibration, our pace can be 🔜strong in every race. But for qualifying, we never feel this extra grip.”

Q▨uartararo is currently the third-best qualifier of the 2025 season, behind only Marc and Alex Marquez. 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johann Zarco is the highest Honda with eighth place in the BMW Awa💮rd. Joan Mir is tenth and team-mate 𝔉Marini just 16th.

Joan Mir: “We will succeed”

On the other side of the HRC garage, Joan Mir has shown impressive speed,♛ rea𒅌ching Q2 on multiple occasions and fighting for top Honda honours with Johann Zarco.

However, the Spaniard has rea💖ched the chequered flag in just four races, leaving him 18th in the world cham♏pionship.

“Coming to Le Mans, our objective is simple: get points on the bo🉐ard that reflect our e🌳fforts and our speed,” said Mir.

“The potential is there, we have good speed, we are able to꧂ fight regularly in 🐭Q2 and be in the second group in most races. 

Mir’s Jerez 🧜test activities included a debut on the new Honda engꦦine used by wild-card Aleix Espargaro in the grand prix weekend.

But it’🍌s not yet clear if Honda will homologate the new engine for its full-time riders at Le Mans.

“Because we have an acceptable base and an acceptable performance w🏅ith the current engine, we have to be sure that if we put this new engine on track, we will be faster,” Mir explained at Jerez.

Marini added: “Let’s ♓see how and when we can have this new prototype of engine and for sure it will be a little step forward.”

Either way, at leas🎶t one Hond𒀰a rider is set to use the new engine this weekend with another HRC test rider, Takaaki Nakagami, taking over the Espargaro bike for his debut wild-card at Le Mans.

LCR’s Zarco remains Honda’s top rider in the MotoGP standings, in seventh overal𓃲l. Marini 🦄is 12th, Mir 18th and rookie Somkiat Chantra 23rd.