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 potential 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 observe it received at 12 months earlier with Alex Rins.
This comes because the temper within the Honda camp was Positive in final November’s Valencia check, however an absence of progress since has stumped the marque.
“The one factor I can inform you is in Japan they’re attempting exhausting,” Puig instructed motogp.com through the Americas GP.
“They’re actually attempting, they’re engaged on many various issues.
“They convey new folks to the group, they’ve extra manpower. I imply, it’s not that they’re sleeping.
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“However, alternatively, we aren’t getting there and the bike just isn’t performing. We did large modifications on the bike, we did good enhancements theoretically.
“However you can’t see it on observe. Right now we’re a little bit bit confused. We are attempting quite a bit, however we can’t see something actually spectacular on observe. That is true.”
Joan Mir was highly critical of Honda on Friday at the Americas GP, saying it needed to “take duty” for going within the fallacious path with the RC213V idea this season.
After the US spherical, Mir added: “It’s determined. The state of affairs may be very troublesome.
“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 occasions, you get near it, you make one lap, two laps recovering, however on the third lap the bike says ‘I surrender’.
“It is a bit the rhythm of the story. We’ve got to be sturdy, to work exhausting and to proceed to maneuver on from this example.”
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