Neither Valencia nor Sepang. In neither of the two tests Sling it was competitive. In the team they know it and a Marc Márquez who fears a season far from the best despite having definitely put his physical problems behind him.
The next appointment arrives in Portimao. And it is the final one before the season begins. It will be all or nothing. And Márquez has one last hope: “The first planning was a bit like that, try many things in sepang. They have, we have good ideas, and I speak in the plural because we are a team and we are all together.”
“We have many ideas, but in Malaysia it was time to test things at a conceptual level for now during this month until the tests of Portimao, evolve and test them there“, the Spaniard has expressed in statements collected by ‘Motorsport’.
Honda’s hope is that test: “Lack see how we evolve in Portimao, how we got to that race, and then the key remains to be seen: what will happen when five races have passed and we have gone to five different circuits”.
“You have to be realisticso as not to have that excessive pressure when things are tested, then in the Portimao test we will see, in the first race we will see, and during the year there are many things that can be changed,” said the eight-time motorcycling champion.
There are many opinions about Marc’s situation at Honda. At the moment he has no choice but to trust and wait for that extra speed to get closer to the Ducatis. If they can’t make it at the factory, the season will be long.
