What?
Honda know a thing or two about building engines, pointless lame robots and lawnmowers. What they don’t know, however, is how to build a chassis to save their beansprouts. That’s why they’re only successful in championships where someone else builds the chassis for them like F1 and IndyCar*.
The dishonour to openly admit failure and ask for help in Japanese culture is on par with stealing your neighbour’s koi carp and then waving it around in a disrespectful manner. But this season in MotoGP that’s what the evil lawnmower manufacturing firm has been forced to do outsourcing their chassis to a 3rd party.
Why?
When Honda fail they like to find the miniature employees responsible then bag them up and throw them in the Tokyo harbour. It’s their ‘incentive’ scheme – which makes us wonder how many oriental workers copped it during the production of Honda’s truly awful Honda-E.
To replace the fallen dishonoured staff Honda traditionally threw money at the problem to hire better people who could sprinkle the proverbial MSG over the problem. Or that used to be the plan when Honda was respected.
But as the harbour’s overflowing the money pit is drying up meaning Honda now have no options but to admit their lack of ability and ask for outside help. And that’s exactly what they’ve done by contracting outside fabricators to build their MotoGP chassis.
So that’s embarrassing right? But at least they have the honour of having the most successful MotoGP rider in recent years – Marc Marquez. Marc is generally regarded as being infinitely better than his half-baked brother Alex…
Who?
Alex Marquez is a MotoGP rider that you may not have ever heard of. However he is absolutely despised by the bitter yellow brigade for being the brother of someone they also despise…which is like hating the fridge because you once burnt your hand on the oven.
Honda may not despise Aleix, but they certainly don’t like him very much. The second-string Spaniard joined Honda’s full-beans MotoGP factory team from Moto2 in 2020 on the order of Marc…but wasn’t very good. So each season Alex was subsequently demoted to the point that he was riding on a glorified CB500 last season. Honda didn’t like him. However with Marc skiving all the time pretending his shoulder hurt they realised they no longer had the need to kiss his little brother’s arse.
Alex claimed Honda treated him like an unwanted fungal infection and the Spaniard openly admitted he couldn’t wait for his contract to end so he could leave the grass clippings behind. And he did just that – joining Gresini Ducati for 2023.
So?
So what if a rider that Honda didn’t rate leaves HRC and then joins another team? Then what if that rider, who was pretty terrible throughout his HRC career, is instantly fast? Then what if that rider beats his brother? His brother who is rated as possibly the greatest MotoGP talent ever…who has been riding for Honda throughout his career?
Should this happen then HRC will look even more embarrassing than Alberto Puig’s failed hair transplant. Alex beating Marc just can not happen in the eyes of HRC.
Will it?
Alex has been fast in testing. Proving our theory that any average rider can look good on a Ducati. It seems every dog has his day on a Ducati so there’s a very good chance Alex could claim podiums and even win races. All while his highly rated brother struggles to get into the top ten.
Worse still we now have sprint races meaning Marc has double the amount of chances of falling off and bending his shoulder or his eye falling out again. This would inevitably mean more time off and more chance of Alex to outshine him.
* Indycar – where last season Honda finished 2nd in the manufacturers. Out of two. With double the budget of the other manufacturer.