Honda had been winning at the Sachsenring since 2010, three years Dani Pedrosa did it and the last ones, consecutively since 2013, Marc Márquez, but this Sunday, with the boy from Cervera at home recovering from an injury, Honda failed to add a single period, a situation that is difficult to understand.
In fact, Honda had been scoring points in the premier class for 633 races in a row, from 1982, at the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama, to 2022, at the Montmeló race. 40 years that ended this Sunday on his talisman track.
Of the four RC213Vs that started, the Japanese Takaaki Nakagami suffered a crash, while Pol Espargaró and Alex Márquez retired for different reasons.
Espargaró, who suffered a very strong crash on Friday, had a crack in his ribs, and with the heat and effort he could not endure the race, deciding to retire.
Alex Márquez’s was a mechanical failure, as he himself explained at the end of the race.
“The rear exit device has been stuck since the first lap, first corner, it has stayed down, the motorcycle was going like a chopper, it was difficult for me to understand it, it touched my foot in the curves, I have tried to fix it manually, sometimes I had done it, but I couldn’t,” said Alex.
For the guy from Honda, this problem comes at a bad time, just when the future of the riders is being decided.
“A pity, you work hard all weekend to have a good rhythm, also in the warm up with used tires, you try to do it, but they are racing things and technical problems are also part of our job,” he resigned. .
Honda, which yesterday announced the medical check-up to which Marc Márquez underwent after his fourth operation on his right arm, is now waiting like rain in May for the man from Cervera to fully recover and be able to return as soon as possible to direct the development of a motorcycle that this year ‘has gone bad’, and is not up to the story of this manufacturer, ranked last in the MotoGP World Championship constructors’ standings.
