Somkiat Chantra is “not ready” for his 2025𝔉 MotoGP move, it has been suggest🌌ed.

Moto2 𓂃rider Chantra wiꦑll become the first Thai rider in MotoGP when he is promoted into the LCR Honda team next year.

However, potential problem🅰s 🌌have already been spotted.

“I’ve go𒀰t mixed feelin🥀gs,” admitted TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson.

“It’s g🉐reat f🎶or the championship. Incredible. We all like him, he’s a character and a breath of fresh air.

“The negatives? He’s 10th in the championship, he hasℱ two victories in h🤪is years in Moto2.

“At no point watching him have I thought ‘he looks like a MotoGP ri📖der, he has got t𝓰he ability to be a MotoGP rider’.

“The last time s♎omeone was promoted into MotoGP with a record as average? I can’t think of on⛄e.

“Fabio di Giannantonio was in the top five of Moto2. Luca Marini wasn’t incredible but was way better thꦇan Chantra.

“My fear is that he joi𝕴ns MotoGP with the worst manufacturer and the worst record coming in.

“He’s being set up to fail. If 21 riders are covered by one second, and he’s one second behind them… he could be. That’s not go💧od for anybody.”

Ch🍨antra will replace long-standing Honda ༺rider Takaaki Nakagami, who will become a test rider for the Japanese manufacturer, next year.

But Honda’s woes have only been more exposed🧸 this season since they lost Marc Marquez.

Itꦇ took Repsol Honda newcomer Luca Marini until the ninth round of the year to score his first point, and even that was due to tyre pressure penalties to three other rider♓s.

Chantra’s move into LCR Honda came after Ai Ogura - who was widely t꧋ipped for the role - was instead promoted from Moto2 into MotoGP with Trackhouse Aprilia.

Michael Laverty assessed it for TNT Sports: “Ai Ogura was a sho♊o-in. But he got the opportunity to join Trackꦛhouse.

🍸“Chantra is a passport ride, in a lot of ways. Idemitsu, the Japanese oil giant, want a rider from Asia.

“Chantra has been a part of their Moto2 team. But he doesn’t ඣhave the stats to back it up.

“If we beat the drum for Jake Dixon everyone would lambast us saying it’s ಞa passport ride, but he’s in a much better p🧸osition than Chantra.

“It’s𓆉 a difficult one. He’s on a hiding to nothing. He is talented but not ready for a MotoGP move, but you understand the politics.”