FIRST LOOK: Revamped ‘Honda Repsol’ MotoGP livery for Luca Marini, Joan Mir
Repsol Honda’s MotoGP livery gets its biggest shake-up since 1995 for its꧂💛 30th season.
Officially, HRC’s factory MotoGP🎃 project is still titled as the ‘Repsol🤡 Honda Team’.
However, ‘Honda Repsol’ would more accurately describe the team’s fresh 2024 livery for Joan Mir and new signing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini, unveiled in Madrid this morning.
For the first time since Repsol joined forces with Honda 30 years ago, branding for the Japanese manufacturer now has pride o🌺f place on its grand prix prototype.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:As rumoured, Repsol has been demoted to the lower fairing (where R🐼ed Bull used to be) with HRC red, white and especially blue replacin🐠g much of the previous orange for the team’s post-Marc Marquez era. The wheels are also now black.
MotoGP’s most successful team with riders’ titles for Mick Doohan, Alex Criville, Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden, Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda has been without a race win since Marquez’s Misano victory in late 2021. However, LCR’s Ale🔯x Rins broke Honda's victory drought at COTA last year.
Nonetheless, Honda finished bottom of the constru🎃ctors’ standings and, like Yamaha, will now benefit from revised technical concession rules for 2024. These include access to private testing with race riders, exemption fro൩m the engine design freeze, and more aero updates.
Mir was the top Honda in tenth place at the recent Sepang test, 0.692s from Ducati’s reigning worl🔯d champion Francesco Bagnaia. Marini, younger brother of former Repsol Honda world champion Valentino Rossi, was 19th (+1.326s).
Although the RC213V has been heavily revised for 2024, with riders impressed by its engine and improved time attack capabil🌳ities, rear grip remains the bike's biggest weakness.
Mir, the 2020 world champion for Suzuki, struggled to 22nd in his debut Repsol Honda seas𓂃on, finishing just five Grand Prix races in𓃲-between injuries.
Marini took his first podiums on the way to eighth for VR46 Ducati. The Italian will work with Mir's former crew🗹, headed by Giacomo Guidotti, with the Spaniard switching to Marquez's former crew, run by Santi Hernandez.
The pair will make their track debut in 2024 Repsol Honda colours during the final pre-season test in Qatar from February 💫19-20.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suꦡzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
