Joan Mir’s wish may be getting closer, says Stefan Bradl, who has ‘heard’ that Honda may take a decisive step to support the team and riders on European soil. This could involve a race support department, he said.
If Mir did ask for the team to have more support, including people in Europe and more engineers, Bradl was quoted by GPOne as saying that the manufacturer could be on the way to something new that, if confirmed, could be decisive for the future.
In particular, Bradl said: ‘I’ve heard that they’re going to open a department in Italy that will support motorcycle racing. But I can’t tell you exactly when that will be’.
What is certain is that this is precisely in line with the wishes of Mir, who had asked for ‘more help’ and ‘engineers’, while Bradl himself seemed to have ‘thrown’ some of the responsibility for the development of the RC213V onto Romano Albesiano, the team’s new technical director and ex-Aprilia rider.
By: AM