MotoGP’s revised conces♛sions structure offers only one “good thing”, ac🦹cording to Repsol Honda’s Luca Marini.

The concessions system was revised for 2024 to try to help s𝄹truggling manufacturers catch up to the class leaders♊.

More specifically, the new systemꦦ saw development opportunities opened up for the Japanese manufacturers — Honda and Yamaha — and closed down for the current dominant force in MotoGP, Ducati.

Honda and Yamaha were allowe𒐪d to carry out private testing with their race riders, bring more aerodynamic updates during the season, and were permitted changes to engine specification during the season💧 as well.

But Marini said that the new system does not offer the same advantages as in the past, and the✨ only positive point about the new system is the freedom for engine development.

“For sure in the past the concessions were bigger, with more advantage,” Marini said ahead of this weekend’s Malaysian G🌌rand Prix.

“Now, they just give you a little bit more room to develop the bike. For example, we could change the engine during the season, that I think is nice because you can work better, even with the engine during the season; while if you🎃 make a wro𝓡ng decision at the beginning of the season then it’s done.

“So, I think this [engine dev𒆙elopment], at the moment, is the only good thing of the concessions.

“All the other things are nothing because at the end even if you go testing you have a limited quant✱ity of tyres, so many tests we use the used tyre꧙s of Stefan [Bradl, HRC test rider] and we try to share the tyres.

“But🦩 it’s okay, I just want to say that in the p🧜ast the concessions were much more useful.”

Despite Marini’s vi꧑ew that the concessions only offer limited advantages for the manufac💮turers which have fallen behind in terms of performance, the RC213V the Italian will race this weekend is much different to that he rode in the Sepang test back in February.

“It’s very different, and it will be nice to see𒈔 a comparison with what we had at t🎃he beginning of the season, from where we started,” he said.

“For sure, the conditi♏on of the track 🌄is completely different so we cannot compare lap times, because in the test we always go super-fast.

“But we will compare so𒈔me feelings that the rider has, so it will be super-interesting for this at the begi♛nning, I think, and then we will try to achieve our best result also in this race.

“We are doing a positive trend, so we need to keep🌼 working like 🀅this in these last races, or race.”

Marini also said his riding is improved compar♋ed to the test in February.

“I’ve improved so much,” he said. “I’m curious to see my strongest points that have improved, and also my weakness♔ at the beginnin𒉰g that I’ve worked on that, now, for sure are in a different situation.”

Marini will have new parts on his Honda this weekend. Although he didn’t say what they are, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Johann Zarco’s statements that the updates are about improving acceleration, and possibly also braking performance, indicate that Honda is working in a direction that would address the primary complaint of both Marini and Zarco last weekend in Thailand𒅌.

There, both r💯iders said that the RC213V’s losses in acceleration begin in the braking zone, because they have to wait for the rear tyre to settle before they can turn in, and this delays their whole cornering process.

Looking to 2025, Marini said that u𓄧nderstanding how to make the rear tyre work better will be the key to improving Honda’s competitiveness in𒆙 2025.

“We are tal🎉king a lot with the Japanese, trying to understand what is the plan, what is the bike of next year, the direction,♕” he said.

“We have some ideas, for sure we’re going to test in some tracks even without Valencia, to try to understand the new ꦿprototype for next season. For sure, it will not be a revolution like in the past years, but I think we will have some little upgrades, like we made during this season, try to improve the bike in all the areas that we’re struggling in.

“The balance is not so bad. The balance of the bike is in balance, it’s go𓂃od. It’s just trying to understand more how to make the rear tyre work in a better way.

“But, talkin♏g to other riders, other manufacturers, also other engineers, it looks like everybod𒁃y struggles in the same way.

“Ducati is the one that could understand well the [2024] rear tyre and could make it work properly, so everyone will fol💜low the same ta🦩rget for next season. I think Aprilia, KTM, Yamaha, everybody is in the same boat.”