Honda is still looking for changes to reverse the current situation in MotoGP and yesterday announced a change in the head of the team’s technical department with Shinichi Kokubu to be out of the project. Marc Marquez argues that the person who will be in charge now needs time to adapt and reassess the current situation, and made it clear that this is not his responsibility as a rider.
After the Sprint race, where he finished seventh, Marquez was asked about the change Honda had opted to make, and whether he would have liked someone else to have been chosen for the job, with the #93 responding like this:
– Well, at the end of the day, in a big brand – whether it’s Honda HRC or another manufacturer – when the results aren’t coming you have to change something: the riders, the technical staff, bike… whatever, and it looks like they’re changing big names within the project and have chosen other people but that’s not my responsibility, it’s Honda’s.
Marquez then asked for time for the new person to come to start putting his work into action in the best possible way: ‘Now with time, when you change people, those people need time to realise the situation and to bring in new ideas and that’s when we need to manage for the future, in the shortest space of time, to get back to being competitive’.