Why Yamaha looks poised to leave Honda behind (ad-free)
Added 2025-02-03 12:35:26 +0000 UTCMotoGPβs fallen/recovering giants Yamaha and Honda held back to back 2025 season launch events in the final days before pre-season testing begins in earnest, and Simon Patterson has returned from them with very different impressions of the two once-great teams.
He joins Matt Beer on The Race MotoGP Podcast to explain why Yamaha looks so much more convincing going into 2025 - and it goes far deeper than just a better executed (and better timed and located) launch event.
What both teams have changed behind the scenes and how their riders feel about those efforts, whether Hondaβs big signing will be allowed to do his best work and whether Yamaha is definitely as set on a V4 engine switch as everyone expects as among the other topics discussed.
Comments
My feed is getting machine gunned with content! Nice work π
Matt
2025-02-04 22:30:46 +0000 UTCYamaha deserve to get back to the front. Honda don't seem to be at present. I remember a number of people, Simon included. Who, at the 2023 Valencia test said Honda had made a step forward. Marc Marquez later said he knew when following Mir in the test that the 2024 Honda had the same issues as the bike he had just gotten off.
Cardiff Giant
2025-02-03 19:09:26 +0000 UTCI'm always a bit biased when it comes to Yamaha so I really hope things start to change. Huge thanks to Simon as usual for digging the dirt π
Paul Mcclenaghan
2025-02-03 15:54:41 +0000 UTC
