Honda boss Alberto Puig reveals FIM president debate about Marc Marquez: “He could not understand”
The MotoGP Court of Appeal ruled, ahead of this weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:French MotoGP, that Marquez no longer needs to serve the double long lap penalty that he🎐 was punished with for crashing into Miguel Oliveira in Portimao.
Marquez explained that the original penalty was specifically for Argeܫntina, which he missed due to injury, before the MotoGP Stewards reworded it to make him serve the penalty whenever he returned - although Honda successful overturned this decision.
“From the beginning we always thought that what happened, when the penalt🦄y was altered, was not right,” Puig ♊said.
“This is what we were saying.
“𒀰The penalty, in the terms that were imposed, was crystal clear.
“The change, issued later, was not a clarification but a radi🐈cal change in the ๊penalty and its reach.
“This is precisely what the Court ꩲof Appeal has confirmed in its judgement.
“I remember when this happened, I spoke t𓄧o Jorge Viegas [the FIM president]. I explained our points of view.
“For whatever reason, 💯I don’t know, h🌼e could not understand it.
“We won the case.”
Marquez to try new Kalex chassis
Marquez missed four🐈 rounds and returns at Le Mans, after hand surgery, 80 points behind the ch🧸ampionship-leader Francesco Bagnaia.
Honda won at the Grand Pri🐭x o💮f the Americas in his absence through LCR’s Alex Rins.
This weekend, Repsol Honda teammates Marquez and Joan Mir plan to use the n💧ew Kalex chassis which Puig hop༺es will boost the bike that has been subpar for at least the past year.
“We are pla✤nning to try this new component,” he confir𒈔med.
“We need to get morܫe inf🧸ormation because, in Jerez, only Stefan Bradl could try it. And he had a crash.
“We are planning 💯on doing it on [Saturday], let’s see if it’s possible.
“Honda won the race in Austin. Mꦗarc did a good job in Portimao in the Saturday race.
“We are still not th🔯ere. We are working hard to bring the bike to a better posit♓ion. This is where we are now.”
Puig said about his star rider’s comeback: “It’s very important. For𒈔 him, because a rider must race.
“He’s back, we are very happy, the team has full motivation. Let’s gꦑo.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Spo❀rts for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
