Takaaki Nakagami fights for future with his MotoGP career hanging in the balance

The LCR Honda rider’s contract expires at the end of this season, another dreadful campaign for the Japane🌳se manufacturer.
It means that Nakagami is on the brink of losing his MotoGP seat but he remains adamant 𝓡that he can help 🍷Honda out of their current slump.
“I hope,” he told when aske🍌d about🥀 if he will stay.
“It's my priority🐷. First of all I want to show my potential with the Honda.
“Secondly I want to help. Rig꧋ht now we are in a difficult time.
“I want to help beca🏅use I have a lot of experience. If they help m🥂e I can help them.
“Once we receive the good🌠 component𒐪s, I think Honda has potential."

Nakagami’s teammate Alex Rins is reportedly on the brink of a 2024 move to Yamaha, while Repsol Honda pair Marc Marquez and Joan Mir are also the ♛source of speculation.
Nakagami is in his sixth season in the premier class and has seen the champioꦬnship, and the machinery, ✅change.
“They have evolved a lot and times ar🌟e getting faster and faster,” he said about the bikes.
“You can see it in the top speeds. The other💜 day a rider from another brand reached 366 km/h... It's crazy...
“The bikes have more load, more wing🅘s, more help.
“I remember when I got o♔n a MotoGP for the first time, it was in 2018, at that time there were no wings, no aids, nothing!
“It was more difficult because you had t🔥o be very aware of the front end during acceleration.
“Comparing powers, now wܫe can go with muc🍨h more due to the increase in grip and downforce.
“It 🐟goes faster and faster, but due to the sensations that theꦜ rider felt before, I prefer the above, with the old school.
“Because in 🐷the end, the amount of effort the rider put in paid off. Now it's different."

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a ♚decade covering everything from Americ💎an sports, to football, to F1.