I’m pretty sure Honda know exactly where they stand. Particularly relative to Yamaha. After all, Yamaha were willing to let Lorenzo go, who by coincidence ended up at.......Honda. If you are saying the engineers at Honda post Lorenzo don’t appreciate what they have with Marquez, ok, maybe but I don’t agree. Marquez, as far as I can tell, only wants what suits him. Honda have shown they are more than to comply.
To go in two directions at once is doubly expensive, with potentially little reward. Just ask Yamaha. Why don’t they allow Rossi to guide the development program? Simple, they have Quartararo. It’s up to Rossi to go faster to lead once again, but he can’t. Ditto Honda. Once Pedro was faster, now he’s not. No doubt he is of great benefit to KTM to show them that it’s not the 1% that matters in MotoGP, it’s the 0.1%. That’s regardless whether the frame is trellis steel rather than beam aluminium, which btw was once the supposed cause of KTMS problems. The reality is they now have Binder, like Honda has Marquez and Yamaha has Quartararo. Ducati Zarco, Bagnaia
I say say quit worrying, sit back and enjoy.
