After the tests at Misano, Honda was able to draw out several positive aspects, but the Japanese brand’s riders were expecting more and better from the tests. Alberto Puig, after Monday’s tests, admitted that Honda is making an effort to find the best possible bike for its number one rider in 2024, Marc Márquez.
‘We have new bikes, not the final version, but a prototype to give us indications in a new and better direction. It has some new and old aspects of the 2023 model. We’ve already had some feedback from the riders, not as positive as we’d hoped, but we still have a lot of development to do on these prototypes and we’ll certainly do that at the tests in Valencia’.
Marc Márquez said that depending on the new feedback on the bike for 2024 he would decide whether to stay with the Japanese manufacturer or go to a new team, probably Gresini. Puig, asked about this, said: “I didn’t hear what he said, right now we want to find a bike that makes him (Márquez) happy, we’re here for him and Joan (Mir)’.