Honda have been warned by ex-rider Pol Espargaro that m🏅oney isn’t enough to restore t🌜hem to the pinnacle of MotoGP.

Pol’s brother Aleix Espargaro will retire from racing to become a HRC test rider in 202💮5, adding valuable ex𒐪perience to their project.

Honda ꧙have been stuck in a rut for several years, highligh꧙ted by Marc Marquez’s exit.

Pol Espargaro, who was Marquez’s factory Honda teammate for two seasons, said: “T🐼hey are working. I know they are working.

“Bu🃏t it’s not just about working, resources, or how much money you have to deliver the result.

“It’s not about that!

“ꦡIt’s everything together - how do you work? How is⛄ the organisation? How is the testing? Because testing is a very important part of this sport now.

“The guys race twice per weekend so they have no time to test ♚during a race weekend. Maybe in the past, they did.

“So it’s important to have a strong test team. I have seen that this is important for the progre🎐ssion of maﷺnufacturers.

“The level is high and the techꦡnology is so adva🎀nced.”

'Difficult to imagine the pressure'

Al♏eix Espargaro has brought the curtain down on his lengthy MotoGP career, and exited Aprilia, to focus on testing for Honda.

“Alei🗹x was looking for s꧂omething like that,” his brother Pol said.

“It’s really difficult to imagine the preꦑssure that these guys have every day to perform.

“They push themselves on a race weekend, but also in their lifestyle to be the best everyday, to qu🌜estion yourself everyday and say ‘how can I be better?’

“Aleix reached a point where he had a lot of things in his head, thinking about what he wants to do in the future💃♔.

“He wants to be with his family. Also, he likes cycling and wants to do somet🦄hing before he’s too old.

“He wants to do differentཧ ꦕthings in life which is understandable after so many years in the paddock.

“🎀To go to Honda, and to make them win again or b🐻e at the top again, is an amazing target, an amazing goal, a great adventure.”