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Spanish oil big Repsol has been the manufacturing unit Honda squad’s title sponsor since 1995 and continues its partnership into 2023, regardless of rumours in recent times of the tie-up ending.
Honda comes into 2023 off the again of its second winless marketing campaign in three years because it seems to show round its troubled RC213V and problem for the championship for the primary time since 2019.
Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez stays within the squad as he enters the penultimate season of his four-year cope with Honda, and is bodily in one of the best form he has been since badly breaking his proper arm in 2020.
He might be joined by 2020 world champion Joan Mir, who signed a two-year cope with HRC halfway by final 12 months after Suzuki introduced it could be quitting MotoGP on the finish of 2022.
This can mark the primary time since 2019 that the manufacturing unit Honda squad has featured two world champions in its line-up.
At its launch occasion in Madrid on Wednesday, Honda unveiled its largely unchanged – however immediately recognisable – color scheme for the brand new season.
Repsol Honda Crew bike livery
Picture by: Repsol Media
Honda’s winter to date has not yielded the enhancements it had hoped for with its 2023 bike.
After the preliminary prototype examined in November in Valencia was not positively obtained, neither Marquez nor Mir felt Honda was near being aggressive with the brand new bike after final week’s Sepang check.
On the conclusion of the check, Marquez mentioned: “We began the check with 4 bikes, second day we had three bikes, right now we began with two bikes and within the afternoon was just one bike,” Marquez mentioned after ending the Sepang check 10th total, zero.777 seconds off the tempo.
“So, I already determined that’s the bike, that is the route. Nevertheless it’s not the bike I must win the championship, I want one other step from that bike.
“Nevertheless it’s vital to have one base clear and to neglect concerning the others.”
Testing will resume in Portugal on 11-12 March, earlier than the season will get underway on the Algarve venue on 26 March.
Repsol Honda Crew bike livery
Picture by: Repsol Media
