The long list of riders Honda has beaten in MotoGP

Not to mention the savage 500cc 2-stroke era pilots shredders of integrity, MotoGP’s 4T era, which came into force in 2002, also began to insist on racing famous pilots, and there is no distinction between champions. With race winners and second pilot submissions, Honda will start receiving cake after becoming the most successful factory in the championship. In the MotoGP era, 10 out of 21 rider titles, 12 out of 21 constructors’ titles, and 10 out of 21 team titles belonged to Honda.

But the past few years have all gotten better, and success has overshadowed reality. What makes a team or brand great is having two competitive riders on the same bike and making the maxim ‘the first rival is the box’s partner’, whereas the second rider was sacrificed. The road Yamaha showed with the tandem of Rossi and Lorenzo.

casey stoner

Repsol Honda Rider 2011 and 2012

Stoner, a two-time world champion with Ducati in 2007 and Honda in 2011, died in 2012 aged just 27. He eventually got sick of the paddock, but injuries also played a role. “Most of my work was commitments and commitments with the media. Then I had the injury problem. That dragged me down. For years they robbed me of my joy,” he said. said after the fact that in 2012, the year he rode Repsol Honda’s No. 1 car, he had a serious accident in Indianapolis, broke his ankle and underwent surgery. I put it up and it didn’t come back. He came out as a wildcard when he was a tester for Honda and Ducati.

Dani Pedrosa

Repsol Honda Rider 2006-2018

He competed in MotoGP as a three-time world champion and was eligible for the MotoGP title on at least four occasions in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, but suffered fractures in a fall and surgery. missed. Of the 15 surgeries he underwent during his career as an athlete, 13 corresponded to the MotoGP stages aimed at becoming a world champion. directed. With Marc Márquez arriving on the box and winning the title in his first year, they stopped paying attention to him in Honda’s development in the current 999cc era, and that’s how it is.

Jorge Lorenzo

Repsol Honda 2019 Rider

Alberto Puig, who was promoted to Repsol Honda’s team manager in 2018, is a real “dream team” consisting of four-time MotoGP champion Marc Márquez and three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo. were put on the same team and he gracefully dismissed them. He was distressed by his nightmares on the Ducati stage and offered him to replace his former protégé Dani Pedrosa. With both of them at the helm, they hoped to ultimately create a bike that would serve all Honda riders, not just Marc Márquez. After an unlucky season with big crashes and injuries at Montmelo and Assen, he gave up the second year of his contract, and in the goodbye game that was brought forward one year, he said, “I love to win, but in the short term, Honda is not good enough. It was possible,” he said. ”. Team-mate Marc Márquez said: “What he’s been through doesn’t deserve it. He’s suffered a lot. The decision he’s made is worth it because it means he’s the champion. Because it shows,” he commented.

Alex Marquez

Repsol Honda riders for 2020, LCR for 2021-22

It was Alex Marquez who suffered the early retirement of Jorge Lorenzo. Marquez’s tandem ended up being isolated at Repsol Honda instead of an uneventful year as LCR Honda’s rookie. Marquez’s tandem only lasted one Grand Prix due to Marquez’s injury. The right-hand man of Marc Marquez. The two-time world champion arrived at Honda on the worst possible stage where the bike was unstable and could pop out of your ears at any moment. He already knew he would be ‘relegated’ shortly after he started racking up podiums, and when he was handed over to Cecchinello’s team, he ‘felt like Honda had forgotten him’. . He continued to blame himself until he sought a clean exit from the Ducati Gresini team.

Pol Espargaro

Repsol Honda riders 2021 and 2022

Marc Márquez’ nemesis in 125cc and Moto2 gave KTM the best period of its career in developing the RC16, and the Austrian machine won races before receiving a lifetime offer from Repsol Honda in 2020. I started. Victory did not come from his hand. He accepted the challenge of going to the best team in the world, but encountered a different reality. The Golden Wings company was having its worst time, and “without Marc Márquez, Honda was almost speechless”. And then he started uttering words that Marc Márquez joined this year. “We didn’t test anything on the bike, so we don’t improve because nothing was tested,” was Espargaro’s shocking message.

Joan Mill

Repsol Honda 2023 riders

Honda’s Moto3 champion, if it had been up to him, wouldn’t have left Suzuki, but the decision was made at the Hamamatsu headquarters and the 2020 champion had no choice but to return home in 2022 at the age of 25 or accept an offer from Suzuki. rice field. Two years at Repsol Honda. Not a single day did he feel comfortable with the Honda, he had the same problem as Marc Márquez, but no one fixed it. He threw away his physique to try and get into the top 10 in the race, but he hasn’t achieved it. He was seriously injured in two crashes at Termas de Rio Hondo, plus a 12th at Mugello, but the worst was Suzuki’s walk-off strike, which was too much of a mental grind that he’s been dragging since 2022. mental state.

Marc Marquez

Repsol Honda Rider 2013-2023?

And what no one could have imagined. Marc Márquez himself, who won six titles with Honda and won 59 MotoGP races, is also looking to join this list of Honda-destroyed riders. From an early age he was accustomed to winning titles using real irons to the fullest, and when he reached MotoGP he won three titles in a row, with the exception of Honda in 2014, where Pedrosa I was fourth, but Marc was the rest. . Without him, these bikes would never have won the title, and it’s all about leading the crash list this year with his aggressive braking and front-end aggression working the tires. It was an exchange. July 2020 has arrived and the course of history has changed with Race 1 at Jerez. The bike lost rear grip and the front end collapsed, an injury that dragged him into mid-2022. And since then, various versions of the RC213V have never fixed the problem, making it worse with each engine update. A shaky bike and true Russian roulette of “crushing riders” left Honda within the GGPP frame a few times.