Joan Mir and Luca Marini shall be hoping to consolidate Honda’s current efficiency with one other top-five end at MotoGP in Assen, Netherlands.
Each Honda manufacturing facility riders have every achieved season-best ends in the final two races, with Marini ending fifth at Balaton Park and Mir repeating the identical consequence at Brno final weekend.
These performances had been backed up by the spectacular run of LCR Honda’s Diogo Moreira, who took the checkered flag in sixth place on the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Joan Mir, 2026 Czech MotoGP.
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The Czech Grand Prix was Mir’s first top-ten end in a primary race this season, not to mention a top-five end. The 2020 world championship is the sort of place Honda believes it has the potential to safe.
Nonetheless, no Honda rider has achieved a top-five end at Assen since 2019, when Marc Marquez (race winner) and Cal Crutchlow stood on the rostrum.
In fact Honda is extra aggressive this 12 months than lately, however high 5 should still be an formidable aim, particularly contemplating Assen is without doubt one of the more durable circuits to overhaul.
However forward of this weekend’s Dutch MotoGP, Mir stated:
“It is a distinctive monitor, utterly totally different from Brno and naturally from Hungary, however I believe we will proceed to indicate our potential.
“It is a circuit the place lots of totally different riders and bikes have been sturdy up to now, and we all know that if we will repeat the Czech weekend we’ve got an opportunity of ending within the high 5.
“We have had some unhealthy luck over the previous few years, however the good factor is that issues can change at any time. Let’s take advantage of this weekend.”
On the opposite aspect of the storage, Marini has six top-10 finishes within the opening 9 races and is hoping for an enormous consequence at Assen.
Luca Marini, 2026 Czech MotoGP.
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Marini added: “The aim for the weekend is obvious: to be sturdy on Friday afternoon.
“Assen is a really sophisticated circuit to overhaul, so if I can get to the primary 4 rows from the beginning, it is going to be quite a bit simpler.
“Our Honda HRC Castrol group has performed an incredible job over the previous few weekends to proceed to enhance the bike, so I’m assured we’ll have our greatest second of the weekend as a group when lights exit on Sunday.”
“Trying on the climate, I am unable to consider a Dutch Grand Prix that was this sizzling. Beforehand there was a excessive likelihood of rain in Assen, so let’s examine how this modifications issues!”
