Joan Mir says Honda having෴ concessions to aid developm🍌ent of its struggling MotoGP bike offered ‘no advantage’ in 2024.

The woes of Yamaha and Honda in recent years prompted MotoGP to introduce an updated concessions model to provide a boost for both to improve the competitive order oꦏf the grid.

Those ca🥃me into effect for the 2024 season and included unrestricted 💧engine development and testing with race riders.

Bu♔t both Yamaha and Honda ended the year without any podiums, w𓃲hile both scored less points in the constructors’ championship than they managed in 2023.

Honda didn’t even breach a century oꦕf points in 2024 across its four riders, having managed 75 compared to the 185 it achieved in 2023.

Mir endured a torrid campaign, scoring points on just 𒅌seven occasions to amass five fewer than he achieved in 2023 with 21 while also registering 17 crashes for the season.

Asked where he felt Hꩵonda would be without concessions in 2024, Mir glumly replied: “This yearไ probably in the same place we are.

“I hope this helps uꦆs for the next o🎉ne. But in the short term we didn't get any advantage.

“We see💟 it in the results [that there was no improvement].

“We have to find a wa🅘y to get good pieces ♏[on the bike] that help us to be faster. At the moment, we couldn't get it.”

Mir has been Honda’s most open critic from its stable in 2024 having bemoaned what he has fe♛lt has been a lack of progress with the RC213V.

He cut a dejected figure at the post-season Barcelona test when 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:he revealed to the media that Honda didn’t bring anything he hadn’ℱt already triedܫ.

While Honꦜda made use of its testing allocation to run private sessions between races in 2024, Mir says this was in some♐ ways detrimental to the riders because of the strain it placed on them.

“The thing that the factory riders are able to test more, I don't think that i🦩s an advantage because if the bike is better I would be faster,” he said.

“That's why we have a test team. If we go to test something and we stay all day bet♏ween one week and another one, we don't rest psychologically.

“We go one test, 🔯race, one test, race. Sometimes it's worse, [not] better.

“That's why we have a test team that now is b🐻eing reinforced and we have to make them work to have proper stuff.

“What they think is wo🧸rking, we try [it] on the GPs and we 💛see that it's better.”

Honda’s test team for 2025 has taken a significant step as the Japanese marque brings in three-time grand prix winner Aleix Espargaro, who retired from ꦦracing at the end of last season.

He will be supported by Takaaki Nakagami, who has been moved into a𝐆 development role at Honda after losing his place at LCR to Somkiat Chantra.