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Celebrating 30 years of collaboration and partnership between Honda HRC and Repsol, Joan Mir and Luca Marini unveiled their inserting 2024 Repsol Honda Workforce RC213V machines on the Warner Music Assert in Madrid on Tuesday, February 13.
Celebrating 30 years of collaboration and partnership between Honda HRC and Repsol, Joan Mir and Luca Marini unveiled their inserting 2024 Repsol Honda Workforce RC213V machines on the Warner Music Assert in Madrid on Tuesday, February 13.Arriving original from the first take a look at of the year in Sepang, Joan Mir and Luca Marini joined guests, family, journalists and larger than 600 guests to fresh the 2024 Honda RC213V for the 2024 MotoGP World Championship. A inserting original livery enhances the younger and talented pairing of Joan Mir and Luca Marini because the Repsol Honda Workforce head staunch into a original year of MotoGP action, sure to continue the stable growth made already.
2024 marks the thirtieth season of collaboration between Repsol and Honda HRC, the longest standing partnership of its form in two-wheeled motorsports. The connection has produced 15 World Championships, six utterly different World Champions, 183 premier class victories, 455 podiums and 9 Triple Crowns. Alongside the original livery, 2024 also sees the partnership enter a original generation as renewable fuels are introduced into the MotoGP World Championship. The persisted collaboration between Honda HRC and Repsol has ensured that the most degree of performance has been maintained.
Joan Mir enters his 2nd season with the Repsol Honda Workforce, now working alongside Santi Hernandez. A year of learning in 2023 has build the 2020 MotoGP World Champion up for necessary improvements in 2024, his ambition for stronger results boosted by a formidable degree of labor and pattern from HRC’s engineers. Up to now, the 26-year-extinct has 13 premier class podiums and one victory, alongside his dominant campaign to derive the 2017 Moto3 World Championship. Mir’s performance in Sepang demonstrated the improvements that each and every he and the Honda RC213V have made staunch by the off-season.
On the diverse facet of the storage will be Luca Marini, the 26-year-extinct turning into the twentieth elephantine-time rider to position on the colors of the Repsol Honda Workforce. Joining the premier class in 2021 after incomes six wins and 15 podiums in the Moto2 World Championship, Marini has demonstrated sure growth in his pattern as a Worthy Prix rider. In his three outdated seasons in MotoGP, Marini has taken two Worthy Prix podiums, two pole positions and four Speed podiums. 2024 would possibly perhaps most definitely most definitely be the first season of a two-year contract for the Italian.
The 2024 Honda RC213V no longer most provocative substances a original livery, but additionally a preference of upgrades staunch by the machine. From revised aerodynamics to improvements to the engine and chassis. An off-season of intense study and pattern has birthed a motorcycle which is the first step in closing the gap and combating for positions on the front. Each Tetsuhiro Kuwata, HRC Usual Manager, and Alberto Puig, Repsol Honda Workforce Manager, highlighted the importance that this season will play for the crew and the championship.
The Repsol Honda Workforce will now head to the Lusail World Circuit for the closing MotoGP pre-season take a look at on February 19 to 20 before the season begins in earnest on the the same music appropriate two weeks in a while March 08 to 10. This is in a position to most definitely perhaps even be the first halt on a 21-scramble calendar which can span the attain of the globe before concluding in Valencia on November 17.
Joan Mir
“It’s fantastic to be allotment of a crew with such historical previous and success in MotoGP, I’m as enraged to initiate this season with the Repsol Honda Workforce as I used to be the closing one. These crew launches are always basically nice, in particular to sight what all individuals thinks of the original perform. I beget the colors for this year are basically utterly different and basically dauntless, absolutely one thing unfamiliar from the crew. We have had a definite first model of the bike and 5 productive days in Sepang, now now we must assign up for the Qatar Check and the scramble. Closing year taught me loads and I’m having a gaze to position every thing into apply for this year to abet the Repsol Honda Workforce return to the build I know they are going to even be. Let’s gain pleasure from this moment and rapidly prepare for the season that is to attain.”
Luca Marini
“For me it’s an honour to affix the Repsol Honda Workforce, after I used to be a younger child I already had some leathers in their colours for racing minibikes. Now to be right here, on the start, in the leathers and with the bike – it is a dream attain proper, one thing from future. This bike appears to be like basically comely, the colors are one thing very original and I’m proud to indicate them. We are appropriate before every thing of our gallop together, but I already feel a allotment of the crew and successfully supported by the engineers. I’ve ridden appropriate six days on the bike so we are having a gaze to establish the quite a lot of the closing take a look at and initiate the year in the appropriate manner that you just’d imagine.”
Tetsuhiro Kuwata
HRC Usual Manager
“2024 is a special year as we have a good time 30 years participating with Repsol and enter a original generation with renewable fuels. Inner Honda HRC now we had been working very laborious in inform to recount a kit to each and every Joan Mir and Luca Marini that they are going to even be aggressive on. Each riders are younger, hungry and are already providing sure feedback for additional improvements. This is in a position to most definitely perhaps even be one other season of trends, of working along with our riders, partners, sponsors, engineers and crew contributors as we strive to fortify.”
Marcos Fraga
Director of Communications and Corporate Marketing at Repsol
“This is rarely any longer appropriate any season. It marks the entry of renewable fuels into the MotoGP World Championship. On this form, top competition remains to be the appropriate take a look at bed to fortify our fuels, which then attain our provider stations and our customers. In MotoGP, now we have the articulate of making, along with our companion Honda, the appropriate renewable engine-gasoline combination with the aim of reaching carrying excellence and besides the ideal quality in our products.”
