Without Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda could pass the worst season in MotoGP

KOMPAS.com – Tim Repsol Honda to pieces at the World Championship MotoGP 2020. Without the world champion Marc Marquez, the factory team is lying at the bottom of the provisional team standings.

Crash what Marc Marquez experienced in the opening session of the 2020 season proved to be fatal for the team’s luck.

Without the presence of the eight-time world champion, Repsol Honda has only received 15 points from the first five series of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship season.

This number places Repsol Honda in 11th place out of 11 teams participating in the World Championship MotoGp 2020.

The elite team is even quite far behind other lower-level teams, namely Aprillia and Esponsorama.

The Honda factory team is also 38 points adrift of their satellite stronghold, LCR Honda, which now takes 53 points.

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Even though he came as the Moto2 world champion last season, Marc’s younger brother, Alex Marquez, could not be maximized on the RC213V this season.

Alex Marquez has only finished in the top 10 of the standings once, ranked eighth, from the first five races of the season.

Meanwhile, substitute Marc Marquez, Stefan Bradl, has failed to get a single point from three races since replacing the champion.

As a result, this performance is like a Repsol Honda sinking in the World Championship.

How could I not, last season Repsol Honda won 458 points at the World Championship.

They outperformed Ducati with 445 points and Yamaha with 385 points.

Not only that, Repsol Honda managed to marry a triple crown title (top in the standings of riders, teams and manufacturers) in the past three years.

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In 2017, Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa led Repsol Honda to 508 points.

A year later, the same combination of riders scored 438 points for the team.

Last season, Jorge Lorenzo, Marc Marquez and Stefan Bradl contributed 458 points even though the majority (420 points) came from Marquez.

Over the past three years, Marc Marquez has been world champion.

In fact, if the situation does not develop quickly, Repsol Honda may miss its worst season since the World Championship premier class changed to MotoGP class in 2002.

So far, Repsol Honda’s worst points tally is 282 points from 16 series at the 2004 MotoGP World Championship with Alex Barros and Nicky Hayden.

That is, they took an average of 17.62 points from each series.

Now, the Repsol Honda team has only taken 15 points from 5 series, aka an average of 3 points from each series!

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