The Japanese manufacturer is achieving something never seen before: doing worse in each passing grand prix. This Sunday, at the Sachsenring circuit, a stage in which he had won continuously since 2010, the drivers of the brand with the golden wing did not add a single point, something that had not happened since before the invention of mobile phones.
Honda had 633 consecutive races scoring points in the premier class, since 1982, from the Spanish Grand Prix , at Jarama, until 2022, at the Montmeló race. 40 years.
“I don’t know about statistics,” said Alberto Puig , HRC team manager, in his usual summary of the grand prix.
“I just know that we are not in the right situation at the moment and we have to completely change this. We have done it many times in the past, we are Honda!” he recalls.
The Tokyo factory is surely going through one of its worst moments in terms of sport, and is clinging to the recovery of Marc Márquez, convalescing from his fourth operation on his arm, to stay afloat. The announcement of his medical review was the only positive news of the weekend.
“Yes, but I think it’s a different concept and I don’t want to mix them up. Marc’s story follows its own path. He has had surgery and luckily it’s going well. But we can’t believe that everything is super positive. Positive is when we ride a competitive bike and we can return to our normal level of races and results,” says the executive.
Puig hopes that the rider from Cervera will return to racing soon, even to assess the situation closely.
“Yes, I have spoken with Marc. He is happy and his right arm is progressing. He has met with the doctors and is doing what they have told him to do. But we can be sure that he is following the situation here (in the circuits) and I’m sure he’ll show up soon to see what’s going on first-hand, to understand how we’re trying to improve the bike,” he says.
Puig is aware that the weekend at the Sachsenring was negative.
“In general, it is clear that it has not been a good weekend, and we have to analyze it as soon as possible to know how to get out of this situation.”
Something that they will have to do quickly, since this Friday the action begins again in Assen.
“We don’t hide. We know we have to improve,” he says.
“Assen is always a tricky track, it’s a very demanding circuit. You need to have a bike with good balance because there are some high-speed corners and some very slow ones, you need to have good control of your bike, otherwise you can have a lot of difficulties there. “, ditch.
