In Qatar Luca Marini debuts with Honda: “A milestone”

In Qatar Luca Marini debuts with Honda: "A milestone"

"A milestone in the journey I have embarked". This is howì Luca Marini defines his upcoming debut riding the official Honda in the MotoGP world championship that begins Sunday in Qatar, aware that it will not beà however, an easy approach in a team orphaned of a star like Marc Marquez.

"This first weekend will give us the opportunity to fine-tune some details of the test,” the Italian rider said in a statement released by the team, “and also to better understand how to work together during a race weekend. We have some work to do and I can't wait to start it as an official Honda rider".

Marini has as his teammate Joan Mir, in his second year at the Japanese stable, who says he is "happy with how things are progressing and I am confident that we can continue to improve. Our goal è to be more ù strong than last season to start the year in a positive way", concludes the Spaniard. Honda explains that it has prepared a "heavily revised" Honda RC213V with "a number of further developments planned throughout the year".