The Japanese producer has made an abysmal begin to the brand new marketing campaign on its radically overhauled RC213V package deal.
Scoring simply eight factors out of a doable 111 from the opening three rounds, no Honda rider has cracked the highest 10 but in both dash or grand prix.
In final weekend’s Americas Grand Prix, just one Honda rider – Luca Marini – completed the race, albeit 33.529 seconds behind the victor at a monitor it gained at 12 months earlier with Alex Rins.
This comes because the temper within the Honda camp was constructive in final November’s Valencia take a look at, however a scarcity of progress since has stumped the marque.
“The one factor I can inform you is in Japan they’re attempting laborious,” Puig informed motogp.com throughout the Americas GP.
“They’re actually attempting, they’re engaged on many various issues.
“They carry new folks to the group, they’ve extra manpower. I imply, it’s not that they’re sleeping.
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“However, however, we aren’t getting there and the bike shouldn’t be performing. We did huge modifications on the bike, we did good enhancements theoretically.
“However you can not see it on monitor. Right now we’re somewhat bit confused. We are attempting rather a lot, however we can not see something actually spectacular on monitor. That is true.”
Joan Mir was highly critical of Honda on Friday at the Americas GP, saying it needed to “take accountability” for going within the mistaken path with the RC213V idea this season.
After the US spherical, Mir added: “It’s determined. The scenario could be very tough.
“If you wish to do one thing extra, you’ll be able to’t. And what occurred a bit within the race was this.
“You see your self within the mid-pack, the lap instances, you get near it, you make one lap, two laps recovering, however on the third lap the bike says ‘I hand over’.
“It is a bit the rhythm of the story. We’ve to be sturdy, to work laborious and to proceed to maneuver on from this case.”
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