Luca Marini says he’s having a “unbelievable weekend” within the Americas Grand Prix, however feels a persistent rear vibration challenge is holding again Honda in MotoGP.
The progress Honda had remodeled the winter break was once more evident on Saturday on the Circuit of the Americas, as Marini certified inside the highest 10 and battled with Pedro Acosta and Ai Ogura within the dash to complete in eighth place.
Marini had already scored an honest haul of factors in the primary races in Thailand and Argentina, however this marked his first top-nine end in a dash race in 2025.
Having had an opportunity to immediately evaluate his RC213V towards the KTM RC16 and the Aprilia RS-GP, the Italian was buoyed by how the Honda was performing on the resurfaced Austin circuit.
Nonetheless, he defined that the Japanese producer nonetheless hasn’t discovered a repair for the chattering points that plagued its efficiency final yr, saying he’s haemorrhaging a variety of time attributable to rear vibration.
“A unbelievable weekend till now. We’re doing an incredible job right here,” he instructed MotoGP’s official web site.
“We improved the bike a bit in comparison with Argentina and my emotions listed below are tremendous good. I can journey the bike very effectively and I can push on the restrict.
“This morning in qualifying I made an excellent lap. Additionally within the race, the tempo was not so dangerous, however I believe it may very well be higher.
“We had some vibration in the course of the dash race like at all times. When the rear tyre goes down we begin to have this type of vibration that does not allow us to obtain a greater place in my view.
“The potential is even larger however nonetheless we have to perceive this and how one can remedy this as a result of we’re dropping a variety of time in the course of the lap.”
Marini’s teammate and 2020 MotoGP champion Joan Mir may have helped Honda safe a double factors end within the half-distance race in Texas, however he crashed out on lap 5 after qualifying eighth on the grid.
Mir discovered that the RC213 lacked tempo when working in a pack in the course of the early laps of the Americas GP dash.
“Actually, using alone my tempo is inside the highest 4,” he defined. “However in the course of the race you must deal with a variety of bikes which can be in all probability a bit extra highly effective than our one.
“It is our weak level in the meanwhile and it is not simple to deal with that. It is not going to be simple tomorrow to deal with it.
“I’ll attempt to do one of the best I can and attempt to be a little bit bit extra cautious with the errors and attempt to carry some factors dwelling.”
