After back-to-back podiums for Johann Zarco in France and Britain, Honda was outside the top-three positions in a MotoGP race for the first time in two races at the Aragon Grand Prix, but Honda HRC Castrol boss Alberto Puig as♕sures that the Japanese factory “clearly understands” its problems.

The post-race test at Motor﷽Land offered an opportunity for teams to address some of the issues they have been facing in the opening eight rounds of the 2025 MotoGP season, as well as ones that cropped up in Aragon itself.

For Honda, it was a chance to try some new material, despite the absence of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini after his Suzuka 8 Hours testing crash.

“We are trying, as usual, many small things and some big ones,” said 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Honda HRC Castrol Team Manager Alberto Puig, speaking ꦗto MotoGP.com at the Aragon test.

“You saw us try a new swingarm.

“The 🍬rest are small things which can giꦗve us direction.

“Unfortunately we don’t have Luca here but ꦓJoan [Mir] and Johann [Zarco] will try, and Chantra will try other things.

“It’s too early t☂o make comparisons but, for me, the mo꧟st significant thing of a part, when it’s new, is the lap time.

“If the lap tim꧋e is better you need to be, at least, reasonably happy.”

Honda reassure 'we are not stuck'

Puig added the reassurance that Honda is “not stuck” in its current ꦏposi🌃tion.

“We are not stuck,”ꦍ he said. We are progr🎉essing step by step.

“We can understand that the bikeꦐ is improving. The riders understand this.

“We clearly understand our big 🗹problems. In Japan, they are working hard on this.

“We always say ♛the same๊ thing – we will never give up.”

Joan Mir’s feedback after tꦓhe test was also upbeat, feeling progress had been made i🌊n terms of turning thanks to a new swingarm.

“We tried many items,” the 2020 𝕴MotoGP World Champion said.

“We focused on turning, trying to get more grip.

“In😼 terms of the engine, we didn’t get an upgrade here.

“It was positive, we tried a swin༺garm which was slightly better. It allowed us to approach the corner in a better w🌞ay.”