The pre-season tests have confirmed the worst feelings of Sling. Far from the favourites, especially the ducatieven with Marc Márquez on the motorcycle The one from Cervera has sent several messages to his team demanding an improvement, but everything indicates that they will not arrive at least in 2023.
The eight-time world champion is beginning to accept the reality of Honda and hopes, at least, to be able to compete for the title. Speaking at an event he has stated that he expects “to be able to fight for the World Cup”.
“I follow the speech and the objectives that I set myself after Valencia. I said that this winter we had to improve two aspects: one, the physical, and the other the motorcycle, to try to fight for a World Cup. I no longer say win it, but fight it “, he has affirmed her.
“Logically, where we come from and how the last two seasons have come in terms of results, you don’t change it from one day to the nexteither. There is a process and there has also been a structural change within HRC,” she says.
But despite all these problems, he wants to make it clear that he is 100% with Honda: “First you have to make the change and then the fruits are more long-term. There is a reaction, there are changes and I am excitedconfident in Honda, with the changes that are being made and with the tests that we have done”.
On the other hand, he affirms that he is “very calm” regarding his physical level: “This winter I have been working a lot physicallyI have been trying to take care of it and pamper it to evolve, and we still have almost a month and a half left for the first race, which is where I want to be one hundred percent physically. But the test in Malaysia left me very calm about that.”
