Honda have been 💫advised to prioritise bike development during race weekends for the rest of this seasoꦡn.

The Japanese manufactur𒀰er is lagging at the back of the MotoGP grid and has now been told to focus on the new 2027 regulations, on the basis that they won’t be able to ꦜwin by 2026 anyway.

Honda, traditionally a MotoGP powe🌼rhouse, have been unable to drag themselves out of the woeful form which resulted in Marc 🌳Marquez’s departure.

“They💧 are in a big hole, a huge hole,” Neil Hodgson analysed on TNT Sport.

“The way they’ve started the season is so far off the pace𝓀.

“In America, the fourꦯ Hondas were the back four. I♕t’s one thing to be slow, it’s another thing to be slow and crash.

“What that tells you is that t👍he riders are still pushing, still giving it everything. And crashing.

“To💟 cras🧸h out from last place almost sounds like a joke but that’s the position they are in.

“But they are throwing a lot at it, and th🐼at’s what th⛄ey have to do now.

“They have to write this season off. They might as well, in my opinion, try things every weekend. They have 𒁃to. To fast-track.

“We know they’ve got concessions so they’ve got more 🦄testing anyway, but they might as well use tyres for the race weekends as testing.

“Because they won’t finis✅h anywhere in the championship, they are nowhere. That’s how I see it.”

Sylvain Guintoli added: “In Austin it was a disaster, Luca Marini was last in the sprint and the grand prix, and the other three riders cra🐽shed out of the sprint and the grand prix.

“Absolute disaster, they have a lot of w💛ork to do.

“How much time will they spend working on the current ruleꩲs? Once the new rulebook comes out, would it be better to work on 2027 onward൩s?”

Hodgson replied: “In Austin, Marini was beaten by Alex Marquez๊ who crashed then 🐷picked his bike up! Unheard of.”

Even fellow strugg🌺lers Yamaha - at a disadvantage wi🦄th two fewer bikes - are outperforming Honda at the moment.

The crash-fest of last Saturday’s sprint race in Jerez enabled Repsol’s Joan Mir to finish ninth, and LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami and Johann Zarco to finish 10th and 11th, whi🔯le Marini crashed out.

But disappointingly💛 Marini was again the last of theꦬ riders to complete the Spanish MotoGP. Mir came 12th.