Marc Marquez warning: “12th or crash, not much difference, won’t develop faster”

Marc Marquez has been dealt a bleak warning by Stefan Bradl, Honda’s test rider whose input is crucial to developing a substandard bike.
Marc Marquez warning: “12th or crash, not much difference, won’t develop faster”

The Repsol Honda star has endured a miserabl🌼e𓂃 campaign, which started full of optimism and free of injury, but has descended into a nightmare.

Marquez hasn’t completed a single MotoGP Sunday race and his 🅰hopes to cha𒆙llenge for the championship were long over even before the current summer break.

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Attention is already on developing the RC213V for🧸 next season, the last on Marquez’s current Honda contract.

“He probably ca♒n't change his strategy,” Bradl told about Marquez’s frequent crashes. 

“He just can't accept that he's managing an eighth or 12th p♛lace. That's how he is. 

“He always tries to get the maximum ou🌊t of it, you can't blame him for that. 

“Marc always goes to the limit and beyond.

“That'😼s confirmation eno🐼ugh that our package just isn't ready for it. 

“We don't develop faster either, whꦗether he finishes 12th or falls over the front wheel again on the sixth lap.&nওbsp;

“It doesn't make much of a difference to🅘 the team.”

Any optimism at all?

Bradl did say: “Marc is almost better again as a rider because his right upper arm is💙 working as it used to. 

“And because he is physically in better shape.

“He has more securit🃏y and freedom on the bike again. 

“After all, he was i🌞n the front row twice in 2023.”

Stefan Bradl, MotoGP sprint race, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June
Stefan Bradl, MotoGP sprint race, Dutch MotoGP, 24 June

So what is the secret to Honda’s demise? Where did it all go wrong for the Japanese manufacturer who have helped Marquez to a sensational six MotoGP chaಌmpionships?

“They went off 🌱course after the Qatar GP in 2022," Bradl said.

"But that's not ꦡthe only reason why thi💙ngs went backwards or why we didn't improve. 

“The steps that take us forward are missing. Too small. Our deveꦛlopment is not fast and efficient ❀enough.”

He added: “The MotoGP class has changꦐed a lot since 2019. 

“Less in terms of the tyres, but the 🍸꧟technology has simply become even more brutal, in terms of aerodynamics. 

“All the devices, the lowering of the reౠar – an extreme development has happened in a short time. 

“And with this development, the Japane𒅌se plants didn't go along with it like th𒐪e Europeans.”

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