Luca Marini is now a Repsol Honda rider in MotoGP, but despite being a factory rider, he will have to start the season with lower expectations than he had in the VR46 satellite team – where he rode the competitive Ducati, while now he will ride a Honda still looking to be competitive and fight at the top.
The Italian admitted that he has to have a different goal than he had in 2023 and that recovery is a process that will take time and in which mistakes have to be avoided:
– I think that my personal goal that I need to set for myself now is different. I think with Ducati you are sure that you can fight for the podium in every race. Now we have to reach that goal. It will take some time, we need to be patient and work calmly and in a good way to follow the right path and not waste time; follow the right direction, if we go in the wrong direction then maybe we will waste too much time. Because now competition weekends are very short, the time to try things is only on Friday and most of the time on Friday you also have to try to directly enter Q2.
After the first test, Marini was satisfied with the direction taken: ‘We will need some more time, more tests and everything, but surely the bike now works very well. It’s a good path, it’s a good start in my opinion‘.
