Honda will reportedly change its group supervisor for the 2026 WorldSBK season.
Jose Escamez has been within the position of Workforce Supervisor at Workforce HRC because the starting of the 2024 season when he joined the World Superbike facet of Honda’s racing programme from MotoGP.
The Spaniard, although, can be changed in 2026, in accordance with studies from Italian publication GPOne, which say he can be changed by Yuji Mori, an engineer from Japan.
Basically, Honda’s outcomes have trended positively because the center of final yr, with the Honda CBR1000RR-R usually figuring within the top-six.
It has but to crack the rostrum in 2025, although, and Honda has not been as aggressive as both Yamaha, which received with Andrea Locatelli at Assen, or the brand new Kawasaki-backed Bimota mission, which has scored two entrance rows and a podium in its maiden WorldSBK season, within the group behind Nicolo Bulega and Toprak Razgatlioglu who, collectively, are dominating the sequence in the meanwhile.
Rumours have additionally linked Honda with a number of riders because the starting of 2025 for the 2026 WorldSBK season, together with Alvaro Bautista and Jack Miller, though the hypothesis over Miller additionally included Cal Crutchlow transferring to HRC to switch Escamez as supervisor.
2026 would be the seventh season of the CBR1000RR-R as Honda’s Superbike campaigner. It has received BSB races and completed as runner-up within the standings, ARRC titles together with in 2024 with Yuki Kunii, and has received three Suzuka 8 Hours editions on the spin since 2022.
However, in WorldSBK, it’s managed solely six podiums in that point, and no race wins.
Escamez’s appointment in 2024 was part of a grand prix-oriented push to deliver the Fireblade to the highest of WorldSBK. His alternative would signify an acceptance from Honda that that philosophy has not labored.
