“There is no driver who can improve Honda’s situation”

2023-12-26 21:33:35

Immersed in his new business facet as owner of the 04 Park – Monte Coralli motocross circuitAndrea Dovizioso practically has no time to breathe these days. The 37-year-old rider has completely left the world of speed aside to dedicate himself body and soul to MX, and in addition to managing his own track, ‘Dovi’ has also started a modest but flourishing career as a motocross rider at the amateur, competing in numerous races throughout Italy on a Yamaha, the factory with which he signed last season.

Despite having completely disassociated himself from the Motorcycle World Championship paddock, andThe man from Forli does not miss anything that happens in MotoGP. Whenever he can, he tries to watch the races and training sessions live, and if he has a commitment, Andrea records the sessions and then analyzes them calmly on the couch at home, more attentive to what the riders are doing with the bikes than the others. own results of each session or race.

In an interview offered to Moto.itDovizioso has acknowledged that “records everything” whenever there is a MotoGP competition weekend and he has other matters to attend to. He reveals that “motocross takes up a lot of my time, then there are the weekends, when I have races, and during the week I train a lot, so I have very little time. I record everything and then go directly to the point that interests me, because I am still very interested in how things are done, not so much in the results“.

Dovizioso was nicknamed ‘The Professor’ in his last years in MotoGP, a nickname he earned by setting a standard with his riding on the handlebars of the Ducati Desmosedici, being the only one capable of making life difficult for the best Marc Márquez. Before riding for Borgo Panigale, Andrea raced for Yamaha for a year in their satellite team, Tech 3, and he also dedicated four years of his sports career to being a Honda driver.first in the Kopron Team Scot (2008) and then in the Repsol Honda Team (2009-2011).

The Italian knows very well what is going on inside the HRC box, which is why he believes that today no driver would be able to save the delicate situation that the Japanese are going through. especially now that they have lost their great stronghold, Marc Márquez, future Gresini Racing driver after becoming tired of false promises from the Japanese.

Dovizioso believes that “There is no driver who can improve Honda’s situation. From my point of view, Honda and Yamaha have fallen far behind compared to the evolution of European factories, also by a lot, not by a little”, insiste el de Forli.

For Andrea, Japanese factories “they should renovate everything” if they want to return to the path of victory. “I’m not saying change it, but do a restructuring. Hire expert people and redo your entire organizational chart, decide who they keep and who they don’t. “This is something that takes years to get back to a high level.”warns a Dovizioso who does not miss any detail of what is happening in the championship.

In fact, for ‘Dovi’ it is significant that “the strongest drivers no longer want to race there”what it produces “a double disadvantage” within the Japanese factories, unable to convince competitive pilots as they cannot guarantee them a machine up to the mark.

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Dovizioso points out that both Honda and Yamaha “they have not yet restructured their situation and They also do not have pilots to help the development or contribute that charisma., that push, which is needed to move everything forward. “I think they are in a really complicated situation,” summarizes The Legend of MotoGP, knowing how to work within Japanese brands.