Joan Mir says Honda having concessions to aid꧒ development of it🅷s struggling MotoGP bike offered ‘no advantage’ in 2024.

The woes of Yamaha and Honda in recent years prompted MotoGP to introduce an updated concessions model to provide a boost for both to improve the competitive order of the ꧋grid.

Those came into effect for the 2024 season and included unrestricted engine🌳 development and testing with race riders.

But both Yamaha and Honda ended the year without a💧ny podiums, while both scored less points in the constructors’ championship than they managed in 2023.

Honda didn’t even breach a c😼entury of points in 2024 across its four riders, having managed 75 compared to the 185 it achieved in 2023.

Mir endured 𝓡a torrid campaign, scoring points on just seven occasions to amass five fewer than he achieved in 2023 with 21 while also regist💛ering 17 crashes for the season.

Asked where he felt Honda would be without concessions in 2ꦫ024, Mir glumly replied: “T꧑his year probably in the same place we are.

“I hope this helps us for the next one. But in the short term we didn'♔t get any advantage.

“We see it in the results [that there was no improveme𝕴nt].

“We have to find a way to get good pieces [onไ the bike🍨] that help us to be faster. At the moment, we couldn't get it.”

Mir has been Honda’s most open critic from its stable in 2024 havinꦜg bemoaned what he has felt has been a lack of progress with the RC213V.

He cut a dejected figure at the post-season Barcelona test when 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:he revealed to the media that Honda didn’t bring anyꦉthing h🃏e hadn’t already tried.

While Honda made use of its testing ꦇallocation to run private sessions between races in 2024, Mir says this was in some ways detrimental to the riders because of the strain it placed on them.

“The thing that the facto🌃ry riders are able to test more, I don't think that is an advantage because if the bike 🧸is better I would be faster,” he said.

ꦯ“That's why we have a test team. If we go to test something and we stay all day between one week and another one, we don't rest psychologi🐭cally.

“We go one test, race, one test, race. Sometimes it'📖s worse, [not] better.

“That's why we have a test team that now is being rei♏nforced and we have to make them work to have proper stuff.

“What they think is working, we try [it] on the GPs and we se🐓e that it's bett🏅er.”

Honda’s test team for 2025 has taken a significant step as the Japan♛ese marque 🐼brings in three-time grand prix winner Aleix Espargaro, who retired from racing at the end of last season.

He will be supported by Takaaki Nakagami, who has been 🌟movedꩵ into a development role at Honda after losing his place at LCR to Somkiat Chantra.