“When Honda has a winning bike, winning riders will want to get on it”
Alberto Puig vo🌳ws that Honda's MotoGP bike will become coveted by top riders
Honda 💯insist that “winning riders” will soon covet their MotoGP bike.
The unexpected situation surrounding 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin’s reported 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:desire to quit Aprilia in 2026 has put Honda in the focus.
The factory Honda seat is 168澳洲5最ಞ新开奖结果:M🍰artin’s preference for a surprise move that nobody saw coming, according to Sky Italia.
The once-mighty Japanese manufacturer has been struggling for several years to recaptur𝔉e the glory days of Marc Marquez’s pomp.
But their progress in the earliest rounds of 2025 has hinted 💫at bigger things to come.
Honda insist "winning riders" will want to join
Team boss Alberto Puig told El Periodico that the tea𒅌m’s rise back to the top is “not a dream”.
He said before the Frenc🌺h MotoGP: “We are coming back, we are improving.
“We have created a department in Italy with European technicians, Honda Japan has been restructured.
“The relationship between the facto﷽ry, Europe and the circuit✱ is fluid and we are working hard to have a competitive, winning bike again.
“Let no one forget tha𝐆t we are Honda and Honda will return. As Yamaha will return.
“And, when Honda comes back, when Honda has a winning bike, the winni🧸ng riders will want to get on it and we will want to hire them.
“We woulꦗd like it to be now, but everything takes time. How much? I don't know, but we're coming backꦏ, yes.”
After Puig’s declaration, the French MotoGP was brilliantly won by LCR satel𝔉lite rider Johann Zarcoꦍ.
It was a major statement and a rewar⛄d for the manufacturer’s clear progress this season.
Zarco is sixth in the MotoGP standings overall, the top ꧙non-Ducat𒉰i rider.
Zarco and current incumbent Luca Marini both insist t🐷hey are talking to Honda about a factory contract for 2026.
But the sꦯhock news from Aprilia’s garage regarding Martin’s future has thrown theও entire rider market into doubt.
There are a handful of vacant bikes in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2026 MotoGP rider line-up including Honda’s factory seat.
Martin, if he follows through with the claim that he will quit Aprilia, would be the prized asset on the market, as the reigning MotoGP cham🐠pion.
That will give Honda 🎃a headache about whether they are able to acquire hꦡis services - and whether they want to sign him up instead of their alternate options: Zarco, Marini and reportedly also Toprak Razgatlioglu.
Jameꦗs was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to ൩F1.
