Alex Rins says the difficulties he faced overtaking other bikes on the Honda in Portugal reminds him of how he had to deal with a top speed deficit at Suzuki.
Rins joins Honda and LCR for 2023 after Suzuki elected to quit MotoGP at the end of the 2022 campaign, and finished his debut weekend with his new employers with a 13th in the sprint race and 10th in the grand prix.
“I’m a bit frustrated, because I was only on the receiving end of passes. I couldn’t overtake any rider, except for one or two, apart from at the start where I recovered some positions. “It reminds me of two years ago with the Suzuki: we are losing a lot of time on the straight compared to the others and then we recover everything in the corners.”showed flashes of pace throughout the Portugal weekend as he made his factory HRC debut.
“The result should be very different without retiring from the sprint race, because it was the first time I was able to do more than 10 laps in a row with this bike, and we had a problem of warming the tyre.
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