It was just under thirty minutes before ten o’clock in the morning when Marc Márquez arrived at the road that Honda has anchored at the back of the box in the Misano paddock. The Spanish runner, who last June 2 underwent surgery for the fourth time to undergo surgery on his right arm, reappeared on Tuesday in the morning practice session, completing 39 laps with a best time of 1.32.395 “one more time than acceptable”, according to the pilot himself, he said at the end of the day.
Marquez stuck to the plan of not doing more than 40 laps on his first day of work, skipping Tuesday’s afternoon session. “Let’s see how I get up tomorrow (Wednesday) and if we can keep going around and trying things,” he explained.
This Wednesday, Marc took his exit to the track a little more calmly, yesterday he did it at 9:45, and just at 10:02 in the morning he left the truck on his way to the box, where all his team and the staff of HRC technicians.
After adjusting his gloves and helmet, the boy from Cervera got on the bike at 10:08 in the morning and went out on the track to complete a first batch of five laps, managing only on the fifth lap to stop the clock in a time very similar to the best of the previous day (1.32.430). Before 10:40 in the morning, the Honda rider had already completed a second round, this time of six laps, to reach the 11 timed steps per finish line.
In Marc’s garage, Honda has three complete bikes assembled, two painted in team colors and one completely black with a few different elements. In addition to these three prototypes, the company’s test and development rider, the German Stefan Bradl, who works in a box that is quite far from HRC’s, has two ‘black’ bikes and collaborates in Marc’s work. “The indications Both of them have been identical, and that’s good,” said the Spaniard yesterday.
Takeo Yokoyama , technical director of HRC, spends most of his time in the test team box, so it is understood that the Bradl bikes, at least in part, are the basis on which to work to develop the bike. of 2023, even if it assembles prototype parts from years past. Honda would be taking steps back to be able to find the point where they were lost.
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