Tetsuhiro Kuwata is the lates🏅t senior figure 💎to leave HRC's MotoGP project.

According to , Kuwata, currently ‘General Manager Race🅷 Operations Divisio𒈔n’ will be moved to the four-wheel side and be replaced by Taichi Honda, from the Off-road/Dakar department.

Repsol Honda told ltxcn.top that Kuwata’s ༺chan🍰ge of role was ‘part of the normal rotation of HRC management’.

Joining Honda Motor in 2000, Kuwata arrived at HRC in 2011. He ✱was promoted to his current role in the aftermath of Shuhei Nakamoto’s retirement five years later.

Kuwata’s duties in🅠clude overseeing all of HRC’s racing activities ‘fr🍨om MotoGP to the Dakar’.

His exit from the MotoGP project follows that of H🅘RC technical director Shinichi Kokubu and technical manager Takeo Yokoyam🍸a.

After just raceౠ one win in the last three years, and the loss of Marc Marquez, 2024 is being billed as the start of a new MotoGP era for Honda, which has also revamped its Repsol race livery.