etusch wrote: ↑30 Aug 2022, 14:14
Big probably Honda and Yamaha will make a quite different bikes. It may work or may not work. We will see. If it works that will be good for MM for Honda and for JM, AR. I also don't see mir as a fast rider but there is MM as no:1 so no worry for Honda.
Honda brought a very different bike this year and it proved to be a step in the wrong direction and as far as can be seen from what they are doing this season they don't quite know where they went wrong. They are testing different frames, swingarms, aero packages... and nothing seems to work. As for MM: Honda has had him in 2020-2022 seasons as well. But after his injury he was never really the same. And I think he will never be the same ruthless Marc that we all remember. He may get a win or 5, but he alone won't be enough to drag that Honda back up the order.
etusch wrote: ↑30 Aug 2022, 14:14
Today I watched a video; a Honda engineer talks about 2 years of engine development during 2 years of covid era and he said they changed more things on the engine than they used to change from season to season.
That is not unique to Honda, all manufacturers had the same thing. The reason being that engine development was very restricted in 2020 and 2021 to save on costs during pandemic when revenue was down. But for 2022. they could once again do big changes to the engine and basically everyone did. It is just that some made good progress with engine (like Ducati, Aprilia, Honda and to some extent Suzuki), whilst others dropped the ball (Yamaha).
etusch wrote: ↑30 Aug 2022, 14:18
Maybe next years Honda will shine, the first thing would be to give it a new model name, RC213V is 9 years past
Model name doesn't affect performance, so who cares if they change it. Suzuki since 2015 was GSX-RR, Yamaha is YZR-M1 since forever etc. Only Ducati seems to make clear distinction between their models by adding year number in the designation.
Although, to be frank, I expected Honda to move to RC214V this year since they made a lot of statements about how different this year's bike is in comparison to what they had in previous seasons.