While losing a talent like Marc Marquez will leave a void, the six-time MotoGP world champion staying wouldn't have solved the real problem Honda is reluctant to face.
With Wednesday's announcement confirming the Spaniard's departure at the end of this season, Honda now faces the very complicated scenario of having to find a replacement for the most successful rider in its history. If we take into account that pretending to win with the change is an impossible mission, the reality is that it doesn't matter if who arrives is Johann Zarco, Iker Lecuona, Pedro Acosta or the best version of Mick Doohan.
The response to that demand was the dismissal before the Indian Grand Prix of Shinichi Kokubu, until then general technical director, and the promotion in his place of Shin Sato, who until then had been in charge of the development of the RC213V. The expression that best defines how the bulk of the team interpreted this change of cards is: out of the frying pan and into the fire. Or, in other words, the stamp on Marquez's passport to Gresini.
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