2023-08-14 14:09:40
If anything would define Honda’s work in the Superbike World Championship, it would be precisely the word “ups and downs”. The ups and downs have been on the side of the Japanese brand, not since the first eight rounds of the WSBK, but for several yearsand things have no sign of improving.
The team’s own manager in the WSBK, Leon Camier, has admitted to the championship website that “I would say that it has been a quite difficult season”, and that has not yet ended. Camier mentions that they have “analyzed the results, performance, lap times and those of others”, and concludes that “We have taken a step, but so have the others”.
The manager objects that “as for the results, on paper they look pretty bad”, and mentions that they are not in the box “happy in this position and our goal is not to be here, but to fight for the championship and victory every week”.
Faced with this situation, it is worth asking what is missing for Team HRC to succeed in Superbikes, and Japan is once again the answer: “Japan is working hard, but we need time. There is not just one weak point, there are several that we have to work on, in all areas of the bike”. So the next changes could materialize in “the Aragon test where we will work for 2024”.
“hope to progress”, Camier adds, “when japan brings the pieces”, emphasizing that “We need to improve every area of the bike, we are working on it and we understand it, but we have to go step by step. You can’t try three things at once on a bike and expect it to work.”.
The results of Xavi Vierge and Iker Lecuona are not as expected, despite the fact that Vierge has achieved a podium in Mandalika and is the best rider overall, 16 points behind 9th, Lowes. Lecuona’s start was to forget after the disasters of Mandalika, Assen and Misanoand despite this it has put Honda in the top 10.
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On what will happen to his two pilots in 2024, Camier has not given “more details at the moment, but hopefully we will announce it soon”, mentioning what “possibly“we will have to wait for”last minute of vacation” to know the future of the two Spaniards.
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