LCR MotoGP team boss Lucio Cecchinnello says Honda “did nothing in terms of development” 🍌while Marc Marquez sat out the 2020 season with injury.

Eight-time worl🍨d champion Marquez and Honda dominated much of the 2010s, with the 🧸partnership winning the title from 2013-2014 and 2016-2019.

Marquez’s 2019 was his most dominant, as he won 12 times and finished second at every other race bar one to win his sixth premier class crown by 151 points over Ducati’s Andrea Doviꦬzioso.

But the RC213V was proving difficult for the rest of the Honda stable by this point, with onl༺y Cal Crutchlow able to get to the podium in 2019 alongside Marquez.

When Marquez badly broke his right arm at the opening round of the COVID-affected 2020 season, Honda endured i🌺ts first winless campaign in the premier class since it returned full-time in 1982.

With Marquez plagued by further injﷺury woes through 2021 a🐎nd 2022, Honda steered bike development in a way to try to better suit its entire roster.

However, in this time up until the end of 2024, Honda has ౠꦬthree winless seasons in the past five.

In an in𓄧terview with GPOne, Cecchinello - who has fielded Honda bikes since 2006 in MotoGP - opened up on how much Marquez’s injury 💃layoff hindered HRC.

“The bike wit🦩h Marc was fine, he was able to cope with the special front of the Honda and used a harder tyre than the others,” he said.

“An example is the race at the beginning of the 2020 season; in Jerez he overtook everyone, then he lost the front and a🗹fter getting back on the bike he showed a great comeback.

“Then Honda said to waitဣ until Marc recovered, bꩵut as we know there were complications.

“During Marc's absence, we di🔯d nothing in terms of development while the others continued to develop their 🍌projects.

“The work started to move more towards aer🎃odynamics and in 2021, when Marc did some races, he then reported on the progress the others hadꦗ made.”

Marquez left Honda at the ꦍend of 2023 as the bike’s form failed to improve, ౠwith the Spaniard joining the Gresini Ducati squad for 2024.

Last season, he🎃 won three grands prix - ♐his first since 2021 - and signed a factory deal with Ducati for 2025.