
In many ways, the appointment of Alberto Puig as Repsol Honda team manager is both surprising, and a logical choice. Puig was both the obvious person to run the Repsol Honda team, as an experienced team manager with a long association with Honda. But, also someone with a complicated history with...
On Friday, the Hondas were looking pretty strong at the Termas De Rio Hondo circuit in Argentina. Dani Pedrosa led FP1, with Cal Crutchlow just behind him. In FP2, Marc Márquez opened a big lead over Crutchlow, with the rest some distance behind. On Saturday, Marc Márquez looked just about...
The controversy began as Schwantz shared his candid opinion with publication L'Equipe on the weekend of the recent Grand Prix of the Americas. Analysing Pedrosa's current situation, Schwantz voiced his feeling that the Spaniard will never win the title in the premier class of the World...
Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez share a common trait besides their Spanish passport. All three entered MotoGP with plenty of promise and fanfare, straddling factory seats as rookies on arguably the best bike on the grid. But there's one fact colder than dry ice that separates...
When former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his comments about "known knowns and unknown unknowns" in 2002, he was widely ridiculed for producing what seemed like incomprehensible gibberish. Yet since his appearance at a press conference on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, the...
After weeks of speculation, Dani Pedrosa has announced that he will end his active racing career at the end of the 2018 season. The Spaniard had been mulling his future for some time, after it had become clear that there was no place for him left in the Repsol Honda MotoGP team, and after...
If there is such a thing as a Honda track, then the Sachsenring is surely it. Of the nineteen premier class races held at the tight, tortuous circuit, Honda have won twelve. That includes the last six races in a row: From 2010 through 2012, nobody could touch Dani Pedrosa around the circuit....