MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda) assured this Thursday that “anger does not contribute anything when you have to build”, in relation to the first contact with the Honda prototype for 2023, which was not entirely gratifying, but “precise”, for the eight-time world champion, although he insisted that the commitment of the factory, in which he trusts “one hundred percent”, is “ten”.
“The objectives have to be to try to fight for the title. We have to wait to see how the winter will develop. Valencia was a precise training session, and I think that in general it was good. What was tested was a small step. We have to continue working to have a more competitive set for 2023”, Márquez valued after an event with Repsol biofuel on the Valencia tests in Cheste, after which he asks for “everything” in terms of improvements to the motorcycle, although there is no “perfect motorcycle”.
“The bike has to be docile in the curves, the front end is one of the important points. The traction level has to be improved a lot. The Marc Márquez style bike was until 2021, this year it was a very big change, a bike for every rider. I gave very few comments about her. We have to manage to be constant, because with the 2022 Honda you could get your head out on time, but being constant was difficult. In the future we will achieve it, “he pointed out as points to improve for the next season.
For that bike for 2023, “Honda will take all the comments”, although the main development will fall on the data and opinions of the “fastest rider”. “There is a very complete team now in Honda. There is hardly a box with so many titles and so much projection. I will give one hundred percent, but if the competitiveness grows, the level of the box will grow,” he commented, after praising the “ability” of Joan Mir, his partner next year.
The Valencia test showed that Honda must work in winter to provide good bikes to its riders. The eight-time world champion Marc Márquez, thirteenth by more than half a second, assured this Thursday that he is not angry with these results for 2023, since “the definitive step” of the Japanese factory will not be seen until February.
“The anger is not good at this moment, because panic sets in. Honda’s commitment is ten. They told me that they would bring many things, in February we will see the final step, anger does not contribute anything when you have to build. My confidence in Honda is one hundred percent, honda is honda. The level is close to those who have won this year, we will try to do our best on both sides,” he commented.
The one from Cervera insisted that anger “does not work in a constructive situation, and less threats.” “I have a two-year contract, I continue to trust one hundred percent, I hope and wish to win again with Honda, it is my objective and priority. I am in the best factory, the only one that can react,” he added, stressing that he was not “It has crossed my mind to leave Honda.” “You always expect more, but it was good training,” he acknowledged.
“I am always optimistic, I was last winter with a rotated arm… It is the first winter after four or five years without being injured. I have to be constant to finish taking the physical step, confidence is one hundred percent One hundred. There has to be a disconnection to prepare for 2023 and face it with maximum ambition and optimism. Then the rivals put you in your place. Next year motivates me a lot with the change of format”, he expressed about his optimism after the first test.
The Spaniard spoke to the media after testing a biofuel produced by Repsol at its Technology Lab, the company’s research center, for the first time at the Madrid Jarama-RACE Circuit. Márquez completed 12 laps on the Madrid track, which he confessed that he “loves”.
“You can’t go to the limit, because there are many loopholes, but I love the track, because it follows the mountains, what is natural. It is very technical, with banked curves… It requires a lot at the level of driving, but there is the risk factor, there is many loopholes”, he pointed out about his first experience on the circuit on a motorcycle.
This test on the Honda RC213V-S allowed to know the first impressions of the pilot with this type of more sustainable fuel. “It went well, surprised, because if they don’t tell me, I won’t even notice it. It shows when the carburetion is good, when the bike revs up. If you can reach the limiter at the top… And it went well, the performance was very good. I wouldn’t have noticed if they didn’t tell me anything,” he explained.
Thus, Repsol and Honda continue to polish this new fuel in the face of the new World Championship regulations for 2024, when MotoGP must use a minimum of 40 percent of non-fossil fuel, until reaching one hundred percent in 2027.
“There are many factors to continue investigating, the more time, the more prepared we will be. By 2024 we will have the maximum possible performance,” he analyzed, before stating that he does not see himself riding an electric motorcycle in competition. “I hope and wish that the research in renewable fuels continues and is successful, the noise, the smell … it’s something different,” she admitted.
For her part, Dolores Cárdenas, a researcher at the Repsol Technology Lab, highlighted that Repsol is “immersed in the energy transition, and the competition also has to start it up”. “Now is the time for MotoGP. In Formula 4 we have already used one hundred percent renewable gasoline in France, now it’s MotoGP’s turn,” he said, before sharing that these types of fuels “are compatible with today’s engines nowadays”, so it “allows the transition to be accelerated” in a sustainable way.
