Repsol Honda arrives at this weekend’s Indonesian MotoGP fresh from its ♔best race of the season at 🍌Misano last Sunday.

For the first time this year, both Joan Mir and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luca Marini scored points, for🐲 11th and 12th places respectively.

Mir thus equal😼led Honda’s best result of the season, wh𒁃ile Marini claimed by far his highest finish on the RC213V.

The big question now is whether the new package of p﷽arts introduced between Misano 1 and Misano 2 will show the same promise at Mandalika.

“﷽We have to be smart because everything we tried in Misano maybe doesn’t work here because it is a completely different situation,” Marini said.

“So on Friday we have to try to understand all the updates we have on the bike and how to mix them in th🧜e best way, or maybe just leave them as in Misano, to find the best compromise fo🍌r these last races.

“Because here the grip especially will be completely differ🐻ent to Misano.”

Marini, who took pole positio🌠n for VR46 Ducati at Mandalika last season, is optimistic. Not only is it a good track for the Italian but Hon🐻da finished a reasonable 11th (Takaaki Nakagami, Sprint) and 9th (Alex Rins, GP) last season.

“I think the bike has made a step in general s🅠o it will work well here also,” Marini predicted. “We have to understand if the performance can be the same level or lower or maybe higher. Because last year here Honda was quite fast.

“I made the pole pos🃏ition but also Taka and Marc were not far and also for race pace it was one of the best races for Honda. So I hope we can 🌠fight for a good position and stay in the points and, for qualifying, maybe go in Q2.”

Marini confirmed that the new aero package was the biggest improvement between Mis⛦ano 1 and Misano 2.

“We had many changes and updates from the test. We have a new swingarm, new aero - which was the biggest change especially - and a few other things in the bi🐽ke that help us to find better c🤡orner entry speed and turning,” he said.

“𝓰Still the traction is something difficult to solve, on the exit part of the corner. We a💙re still working on it.”