With Joan Mir and Marc Márquez finishing outside the top ten in the MotoGP World Championship, Repsol Honda had its worst season ever in 2023. Team director Alberto Puig acknowledges this, but there are prospects for changes in the future.
The manager admitted to the championship’s official website that the season was negative: ‘It can’t be very good. It’s obvious. We didn’t have a year to remember. We never found the way. We started well in Portugal with Marc’s pole position, but then the crash, the injury, also Joan trying to understand the bike. Many ups and downs, but more downs than ups. […]. From the Repsol Honda Team’s point of view, this was not a good year for us‘.
According to Puig, after another season below expectations, Honda is undergoing a restructuring: ‘We really couldn’t take the step that is necessary nowadays in this class. Our opponents have taken a really big step and although we are taking steps and trying to understand our weaknesses – because that’s what they’re doing in Japan, they’re working hard – we still haven’t achieved our goal. Clearly the competitiveness of the bike doesn’t exist. The desire to change and try a different approach exists. In Japan, they are restructuring not only the people, but also the way of proceeding to develop the bike‘.
