🗣️'The truth is that we must improve, and we have to change our procedures.' After a disappointing start to its 2022 MotoGP season, HRC_MotoGP team boss Alberto Puig says the marque must “change our way of thinking” to end its slump ⬇️
The Japanese manufacturer has scored just 85 points in the constructors’ championship so far in 2022 after 11 races, mustering just a single podium courtesy of Pol Espargaro's third place in Qatar.
Marquez, who likes 13th on 60 points, has been replaced by test rider Stefan Bradl, who is likely to see out the season while Marquez continues his recovery.Honda overhauled its RC213V for 2022 to improve the rear traction issues which plagued it in previous years, but has seemingly made little progress, while also making the bike harder to anticipate on the front-end.
Speaking ahead of the summer break, Puig concedes that Honda is “clearly not competitive enough” and says it must change its approach to return to winning ways.“We are clearly not competitive and we have to improve. This is what we’re trying to do.“You can say it in many different ways, giving a long explanation, but the truth is that we must improve, and we have to change our procedures.
“The history of Honda is they never give up. We can take this time or that time or that time, we will get there.
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