Luca Marini details problems from nightmare Repsol Honda debut

Concessions ha🍷ve allowed Luca Marini to test twice since the Qatar MotoGP

Luca Marini, MotoGP race, Qatar MotoGP, 10 March
Luca Marini, MotoGP race, Qatar MotoGP, 10 March

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini has twice tested at Jerez since the Qatar MotoGP to get to grips with his new Honda.

Ahead of this weekend’s Portuguese MotoGP at Portimao, Marini is entering with extra practice under his belt as a result of the new concessions rul꧂es.

The rule - which enables Hoꦡnda to organise private tests - was✃ taken advantage of twice in the past fortnight, with Marini testing his Honda at the Jerez track.

His Repsol Honda race 🍌debut yielded an extremely worrying 20th-place finish at the ওseason-opener in Qatar.

“It was great to have a day to enjoy the b꧒ike at a different track,” he said in Portimao.

“It was a really good test.

“🎃I think that we found a base for the bike that works really well in Jerez. I hope 𝓡it also works here.

“It will be interesting to see🍌, at a different track, if everything is okay or not.

“We made🔯 changes to the bike. After the Qatar GP, we analysed everything.

“We u༺nderstood what went ꦦbad. Now, we are trying to fix it.

“We are in a good way now.

“I am curious to see how the bike works here.

“For Honda in history, this is a better track than Qatar. So we should be closer to the top ri✨ders.”

Marini detailed the issues he experienced during his first race weekend with Honda: “The problem was that the feeling 𒊎of the bike was not so good, especially in the turning area. I struggled a lot.

“The setting had too much load on the front.

“My riding style? I am very tall, very long, so on the bike I put a lot ജof weight on the tyres.

“If we’re not in the perfect balance - also, 💯in the past it hꦯas been like this - then we have a problem.

“Also, in the past I put too much load on the rear. I am taller and heavier than the others so I put too much weight on the tyres then I have problems in the race with temperature or degradati𝓰on to the tyres.

“We need to fi෴nd the base of the bike. ꦇJerez helped with this solution.”

Johann Zarco, the new LCR Honda rider w🐟ho is also adjusting from riding a Ducati last year, has pinpointed grip during acceleration as his key problem.

Marini reacted: “I t𓄧hink Johann is maybe the best rider in the world at usꦓing the acceleration of a bike.

“At Duca🐻ti he made up his lap time on the exit of the corners.

“That is reall🦋y strange, because the normal thing is to make the time in braking entry.

“But he’s♓ so strong in exit that he can be fast just by using his speed in the exit.

“He’s doing a great job for Honda using this part of his riding sཧtyle.

“For sure, he’s 𒐪more🍎 sensitive in this area than the others.

“For m🔴e, it’s not where I am losing the most. For me, there is more ti🐭me in the middle of the corner compared to Ducati.

“In t𒉰he first part of acceleration, KTM and Aprilia are the strongest because they have the most grip.

“But we can defend in that moment.

“In the second part of acꦆceleration, Ducati are the strongest and we are not so bad. Maybe better than Aprilia and Yamaha, I think.

“In the middle 🌟of the corner we are the slowest, on my side.”

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