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...come on peps, widen your focus and lift your microscopes away from the Ducati floopla
By David Miller
Image by Honda Racing
HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) boss Shuhei Nakamoto has been asked by Honda to cut his budet for the 2012 season by 30 per cent in order to save costs in a move he thinks is'impossible'.
Honda are still struggling with the supply of incoming parts after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and have seen sales figures fall to 70 per cent of normal so HRC have been asked to spent significantly less on racing in 2012.
From HRC we are asking for the same budget as this year, but the company clearly said no. Because of the tsunami and earthquake, the parts supplier couldn't supply several parts, therefore we couldn't make the cars. Overall Honda business, car sales are about 70% and we could only produce 30% fewer cars if you compare to last year," said the Japanese.
"This means that only 70 per cent we could make. This number is a big damage to Honda's overall budget. The first request from Honda Motor Corp to HRC is we must cut 30% of the budget, but it's impossible! I tried to convince them that this can't be done, this was my biggest job. Fortunately I recover a little bit, but 30% is impossible, I think."
Because these cuts, Nakamoto is also not in a position to dole out the non-Repsol backed factory bikes but is keen to keep both Andrea Dovizioso and Marco Simoncelli on HRC-prepared RC213V machinery.
We are talking, not decided yet. We have many requests, but just talking, nothing decided. Dani and Casey are both under contract, for two riders we have decided. But we are talking to Marco and Andrea. And also some of the new teams want to use Honda's machine, we are talking," he said.
"For the level next year, you know that in Japan we had a big earthquake and tsunami, so we in Honda Motor Company, usually in next year's budget we already know in August, sometimes the end of July, but this year, everything delayed. The situation is that we are still talking in this year's budget and also we have just started to talk about next year's budget.
"Very difficult position to make an answer to the riders. I am very happy with Marco and Andrea, both riders are growing a lot. I'm very happy, I wanted to keep both of them, but I can say nothing here because I am waiting and I am trying to find budget for them."
http://www.bikesportnews.com/news-d...sked-to-cut-budget-by-30-per-cent&newsid=5364
By David Miller
Image by Honda Racing
HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) boss Shuhei Nakamoto has been asked by Honda to cut his budet for the 2012 season by 30 per cent in order to save costs in a move he thinks is'impossible'.
Honda are still struggling with the supply of incoming parts after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and have seen sales figures fall to 70 per cent of normal so HRC have been asked to spent significantly less on racing in 2012.
From HRC we are asking for the same budget as this year, but the company clearly said no. Because of the tsunami and earthquake, the parts supplier couldn't supply several parts, therefore we couldn't make the cars. Overall Honda business, car sales are about 70% and we could only produce 30% fewer cars if you compare to last year," said the Japanese.
"This means that only 70 per cent we could make. This number is a big damage to Honda's overall budget. The first request from Honda Motor Corp to HRC is we must cut 30% of the budget, but it's impossible! I tried to convince them that this can't be done, this was my biggest job. Fortunately I recover a little bit, but 30% is impossible, I think."
Because these cuts, Nakamoto is also not in a position to dole out the non-Repsol backed factory bikes but is keen to keep both Andrea Dovizioso and Marco Simoncelli on HRC-prepared RC213V machinery.
We are talking, not decided yet. We have many requests, but just talking, nothing decided. Dani and Casey are both under contract, for two riders we have decided. But we are talking to Marco and Andrea. And also some of the new teams want to use Honda's machine, we are talking," he said.
"For the level next year, you know that in Japan we had a big earthquake and tsunami, so we in Honda Motor Company, usually in next year's budget we already know in August, sometimes the end of July, but this year, everything delayed. The situation is that we are still talking in this year's budget and also we have just started to talk about next year's budget.
"Very difficult position to make an answer to the riders. I am very happy with Marco and Andrea, both riders are growing a lot. I'm very happy, I wanted to keep both of them, but I can say nothing here because I am waiting and I am trying to find budget for them."
http://www.bikesportnews.com/news-d...sked-to-cut-budget-by-30-per-cent&newsid=5364
