The days, the weeks, the months, the great prizes go by and little, or nothing, changes in Honda. The same problems as always, identical and bad classifications (he already said Marc Márquez I had decided not to look at the time table, better, better) and the same problems as always persist: instability under braking and little grip at the exit of the corners. That is to say, impossible, to compete against Ducati, KTM y Apriliathe three European brands that dominate the MotoGP World Cup.
And yesterday, at the end of the second training session of the Austrian Grand Prixwhich is held in the beautiful layout of Spielbergproperty of the very rich and modern Red Bullthere was a moment, an instant, a circumstance, a piece of advice that demonstrates the moment (the terrible moment) that Honda is going through.
timely advice
When Márquez was sitting on his Honda, deposited on the stands, front and rear, and while they put the last set of tires on him so that he could risk it and get, out of the blue, into Q2 today, Saturday, Alberto Puig, Team Manager of the Repsol Honda team, approached him and said in his ear, almost putting his lips under the helmet: “It’s not necessary, Marc, leave it, you’re braking too late.” Which was like telling him, don’t risk it, it’s not worth it, leave it at that.
It is evident that the phrase, the prudent advice from the ‘boss’ to his star driver, who has long decided not to risk the slightest or only when he is clear about it, which is rarely, has stopped Márquez, who begins to think that you can’t be risking your life to finish 15th instead of finishing 18th in some training sessions. Yesterday, all four Hondas were some of the worst bikes.
“Alberto cares a lot, a lot, about me and, especially, about my physical condition”
“Alberto is the first to care about my physical condition,” Márquez commented when asked by El Periódico about the dialogue held with Puig in those seconds of waiting. “He is very realistic about the level the project is at right now and he I perfectly agree with what happened in that conversation. He told me ‘it doesn’t take that much, you’re braking too late'”.
And he went on to explain the incident. “It gives me the impression, right? (true, yes), that on television I have been seen a bit on the limit in my braking hurries. I was going to the maximum, yes, but it seems that from the outside I looked even more unstable. I have thanked him, because it is good that the ‘team manager’ makes you reflect. I have tried but I am not exaggerating either. He is right, being in Q2 or not being there does not change much, the result on Sunday will not change much. That It has been the conversation, he has come to warn me that I should be careful because he is the first to know what situation we are in”.
2023-08-18 22:19:50
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