Honda boss Alberto Puig reveals FIM president debate about Marc Marquez: “He could not understand”
The MotoGP Court of Appeal ruled, ahead of this weekend’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:French MotoGP, that Marquez no longer needs to serve the doubl💃e long lap penalty that he was punished with for crashing into Miguel Oliveira in Portimao.
Marquez explained that the original penalty was specifically for Argentina, which he missed due to injury, before the MotoGP Stewards rewor💟ded it to make him serve the penalty whenever he returne🎐d - although Honda successful overturned this decision.
“From the beginning we always thought that what happened, when the penalty was altered, was nꦦot right,” Puig said.
“This is what we were saying.
“The penalty, in the terms that were impose🌄d, was crystal clear.
“The change, issued later, was not a clarificat✅ion but a radical change in the penalty and its reach.
“This is precisely what the Court of A✅ppeal has confirmed in its judgement.
“I remember wh🍸en this happened, I spoke to Jorge Viegas [the FIM president]. I explained our points of view.
“For whatever reason, I don’t know, he c🌺ould not understand it.
“We won the case.”
Marquez to try new Kalex chassis
Marquez missed four rounds and returns at Le Mans, after hand su🌸rgery, 80 points🐼 behind the championship-leader Francesco Bagnaia.
Honda won at the Grไand Pr꧙ix of the Americas in his absence through LCR’s Alex Rins.
T♈his weekend, Repsol Honda teammates Marquez and Joan Mir plan to use the new Kalex chassis which Puig hopes will boost the bꦛike that has been subpar for at least the past year.
“We are planning to try this new compo💦nent,” he confirmed.
“We need⭕ to get more information because, in Jerez, only Stefan Bradl could try it. And he had a crash.
“We areও planning on doing it on [Saturday], let’s see if it’s possible.
“Hon﷽da won the race in Austin. Marc did a good job in Portimao in the Saturday race.
“We are still not there. We are ✨working hard to bring the bike to a better position. This is where w🉐e are now.”
Puig ♏said about his star rider’s comeback: ☂“It’s very important. For him, because a rider must race.
“He’s back, we are very happy, the team has full motivatio🔯n. Let’s go.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade coveri൩ng everything from Amer🍃ican sports, to football, to F1.
