Honda have been advised to prioriti𒉰se bike development during race🐎 weekends for the rest of this season.

The ꦚJapanese manufacturer is lagging at the back of the MotoGP grid and has now been told to focus on the new 2027 regulations, on the basis that they won’t𝓡 be able to win by 2026 anyway.

Ho𝕴nda, traditionally a MotoGP powerhouse, have been unableꦗ to drag themselves out of the woeful form which resulted in Marc Marquez’s departure.

“They are in a big hole, a huge hole,” Neil Hodgson𒁃 analysed on TNT Sport.

“The way they’ve sta�💦�rted the season is so far off the pace.

“In America, the four Hondas were the back four. It’s one thing to be slow, it’s another thing to be slow an♏d crash.

“What that tells you is that the riders are s💮till pushing, still gi𒁏ving it everything. And crashing.

“To crash out from last place 💟almost sounds like a joke but that’s the positio🦩n they are in.

“But they are throဣwing a lot at it, and th𒁏at’s what they have to do now.

“They have to write this season off. They might as well, in my opinion, try things ev🥃ery weekend. They have to. To fast-track.

“We know they’ve got concessions so they’ve got more testing anyway, but they might as well use tyres for the race wಌeekends as testing.

“Because they won’t finish anywhere in the championship, they are nowhere. That’s how I sꦦee it.”

Sylvain Guintoli added: “In Austin it was a disaster, Luca Mari൩ni was last in the sprint and the grand prix, and the other three riders crashed out of the sprint aඣnd the grand prix.

“Absolut🎶e disaster, they have a lot of work to do.

“How much time will they spend working o♈n the current rules? Once the new rulebo༺ok comes out, would it be better to work on 2027 onwards?”

Hodgson replied: “In Austin, Ma🐎rini was beaten by Alex Marquez who crashed then picked his bike up! Unheꦍard of.”

Even fellow strugglers Yamꦗaha - at a disadvantage with two fewer bikes - are outperforming Honda at the moment.

The crash-fest of last Saturday’s sprint race in Jerez enabled Repsol’s Joan Mir to finish ninth, and LCR🙈’s Takaaki Nakagami and Johann Zarco to finish 10th and 11th, while Marini crashed out.

But disappointingly Marini was again the last of the riders to complete the Spanish MotoGP. Mir camജe 12th.