Yamaha, Honda progress to take until 2025? ‘They are concessions, not magic’
No quick f🐓ix to tཧransform Honda and Yamaha’s MotoGP fortunes.
Yamaha and Honda now enjoy a range of technical perks over their European MotoGP rivals, courtesy of this year’s revised con🎶ce🐼ssion ‘ranking’ system.
But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro, who went through the previous concession system with Aprilia, has warned that the perks - which include private testing with race riders and exemption from the in-season engine design freez𝓡e - are not a magic wand.
The crucial ingredient is time and Espargaro tips that it will take until💫 2025 for an upswing in results by the Japanese maꦉnufacturers.
“They ar✱e concessions, not magic. You need time,” Espargaro said, when asked if he expected the Japanese brands to be closer by now.
“We will see last winter's work in the next💛 season, I think.
“Because last winter they started to sign new engineers, they started to develop new things that they dꦐidn't have time to put on track yet.
“So hopefully for everybody who loves this sport, we will see imprওovem𓄧ents from Yamaha and Honda… in the 2025 season.”
Yamaha and Honda are currently on the lowest ‘D’ concession ranking, meaning access to the f🔜ull range of benefit﷽s. Ducati is in ‘A’, having scored over 85% of the maximum constructors’ points, with KTM and Aprilia in ranking ‘C’.
So far this season, Yamaha has a best race finish of fifth place (Je🌳rez Sprint, 3rd before Fabio Quartararo’s tyre pressure penalty) and seventh in a Grand Prix (Portiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmao).
Honda, which has lost star rider Marc Marquez and COTA winner Alex Rins♎, has a best race result of 9th (Jerez Sꦜprint) and 12th in a Grand Prix (Lusail, Portimao, Jerez).
At this time last year, Yamaha’s highest race result wꦬas 3rd for Quartararo at COTA, where former LCR rider Rins took Honꩲda's only victory of the season.
Fast forward a year and the t♉op Yamaha rider is again Qua𝓰rtararo, in 12th (11th at this time last year) with the top Honda rider now Joan Mir in 16th (Takaaki Nakagami 17th last year).
In terms of constructors’ points, which will continue to determine the rankingಌ 💖grade for concessions, there has been a big drop for both Japanese brands so far.
The score for each manufactur♏er compared to the opening four rounds of last year is as follows:
- Ducati: 133 points (2024) / 137 points (2023) = -4 points
- KTM: 95 / 81 = +14 points
- Aprilia: 82 / 67 = +15 points
- Yamaha: 27 / 49 = -22 points
- Honda: 13 / 61 = -48 points
Opening four rounds of 2023: Portimao, Termas, COTA, Jerez.
Opening four rounds of 2024: Lusail, Portimao, COTA, Jerez.
Aprilia is the only factory with the same rider line-up 2023 and 2024.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come a♉nd go. He is at the forefront of🌞 the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
