Pol Espargaro has explained in further detail why he believes switching to the same bike spec and settings as Repso🎀l Honda team-mate Marc Marquez will be beneficial.

Usually, MotoGP riders pursue their own set-up, since moulding the bike to compliment their riding style usuall♛y makes them faster.

But Espargaro is new to the Repsol Honda team and still trying to find his feet with the R♛C213V after minimal pre-season testing.

After watching Marquez take Honda's first MotoGP victory since 2019 at Sachsenring, Espargaro - who finished in an 'eye-opening' eleventh place - sai✨d he wanted technical ജparity with the #93 to help eliminate unknown factors from his own performances.

While areas such as the engine (frozen since 2020) and aerodynamics are the same, Espargaro revealed that he is now using a different c💧hassis to Marquez, who today confirmed he is running an older design.

Marquez ⛄;decided to go 'back to what I know' after feeling 'something strange' with the parts developed while he was sidelined during the 2020 season. 

Espargaro meanwhile made his RCV debut in testing at Qatar in March 2021, and appears to🏅 have remained on the latest Honda parts. However he can't ignore Marquez's breakthrough victory.

"I don't know [if Marc's settings will help 🐭me]. That's why I want to check," Espargaro said on Thursday at Assen. "My way of thinking is that the best way of being fast is to be exactly the same as the guy who is winning.

"We are humans and we can ad🧸apt faster and better than a machine can do. So I'm not saying that by putting Marc's settings or following his line [set-up], I'm going to be as fast as him. This is just bullshit. It's not as simple as that. [I wish] it was!

"But to use the same package as another rid🧸er that is winning shows you exactly where you are weak compared to them. Then you understand exactly what you need to improve and what this bike needs to be fast. In the end, it's what I need.

"Now I'm just testing things to get answers because sometimes I have questions I don’t know how to solve… It's easier to try to adapt myself to the riding style of Marc, than trying to set up a Honda just for me when I have only jus♌t arrived here."

But the technical cloning to enable a dire🌳ct comparison of strong and weak points relative to Marquez may not be possible in time for Assen this weekend.

"It’s something that we have in mind, maybe not here, maybe next race," Espargaro said. "I mean it's just having an eye on the guy that is fastest on the Honda and this is just for my learning process. I don’t know if it's🐼 going to ♛come here or the next one but I mean it's not something anyway huge.

"It's not that Marc is using a completely different engine and everything different. It's just about set-up, some s✱tuff on🌠 the bike. It's not because he won and I was tenth and I said his bike better than mine. It's just to be able to understand a little bit more what the Honda needs and how this bike works.

"We only had just five days of pre-s🌼eason testing and still we haven't done that many races, it's only the middle of the year… Every single day I jump on a different track with different tyres, I keep understanding the bike and learning a lot.

"But even like that, okay the▨ results are not coming in the races, but we have some sparks during the sessions. For e🌠xample, in warm-up I did the second best lap time. We are fast. We have the speed. The only problem is we need to put everything more together."

While he woul🐬d like a clearer com𓂃parison in future, the #44 was still able to learn something from Marquez's performance in Germany.

"Marc is gaining time, especially w𓆏hen he wants to make the lap time, on brakes. Also he did a very🍌 good start which allowed him to be second in the first corner and this also helped for the temperature of the front tyre," Espargaro said.

"I did a super bad start and then when the rain came, I couldn’t take profit becau💫se I had Rins in front, he was quite slow because of his injury and I was not good enough to overtake some guys.

"From the bad moments and the bad racesꦑ you lไearn a lot and everything is knowledge."

Espargaro is currently twelfth in the world cham🍷pionship, with a best race finish of eighth place.

A 'very upset' Maverick Vinales revealed on Thursday that he will 'copy' his Y♛amaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo♔'s bike and settings this weekend, in a bid to break the baffling run of difficulties that culminated in the Qatar winner finishing last at Sachse🌼nring.