The factory Honda MotoGP team ha𒊎ve wrapped up its year with a 💜final private test at Jerez.

The 2024 season was Honda’s worst in the modern era as it failed to breach the top five in a gran𝔉d prix and notched its third winless campaign in five years.

Honda took up the final place in the constructors’ standings with just 75 points, 49 shy of Japanese rival Yamah𒈔a and 647 away from Ducati.

HRC’s best result of the year was an eighജth from LCR’s Johann Zarco at the Malaysian GP, marking its only top eight finish of the year on a Sunday, while the Frenchman was also eighth in the Indonesian GP sprint.

Zarco was the highest placed Honda rider in the standings in 17th🧜, with Takaaki Nakagami 19th, Joan Mir 21st and Luca Marini 𝔍last of the full-time grid in 22nd.

Honda has been busy across 2024 with numerous in-season private tests, a peཧrk of its status a🗹s a concession manufacturer.

But progress was slow, with the most significant step coming after the San Marino GP wi💛th the introduction of a new aero package that improved turning.

At the Barcelona test following the final round of 2024, feedba🌌ck from Honda’s stable was mixed on what 🥀it brought.

Mir was unhappy with the fact that nothing he tested was new, though team-mate Marini countered🔯 this.

Zarco said the 2025 chassis he tried wasn’ꦆt a positive step but didn’t feel the need to beඣ “stressed” by this.

Marini noted in Barcelona that Honda wou💎ld have new and more in🌱teresting things to try in a private test at Jerez.

On Tuesday, Marini and HRC test rider Aleix Espargaro took to t𒐪he Jerez circuit, while Mir and Zarco took over on Wednesd♕ay.

♛Honda’s running coincided with World Superbike testing taking🌺 place at the same venue.

Espargaro joins the Honda project as 𒅌test rider following retirement from full-time racing at the end of🌄 the 2024 season.

He will work alongside Honda’s former technical director Ken Kawauchi, wh♎o was moved to the test team this year, while ex-Aprilia man Romano Albesiano take⛎s his place in the factory race team.