The Japanese producer has made an abysmal begin to the brand new marketing campaign on its radically overhauled RC213V bundle.
Scoring simply eight factors out of a potential 111 from the opening three rounds, no Honda rider has cracked the highest 10 but in both dash or grand prix.
In final weekend’s Americas Grand Prix, just one Honda rider – Luca Marini – completed the race, albeit 33.529s off the tempo at a monitor it received at 12 months earlier with Alex Rins.
This comes because the temper within the Honda camp was optimistic in final November’s Valencia take a look at, however a scarcity of progress since has stumped the Japanese marque.
“The one factor I can let you know is in Japan they’re making an attempt arduous,” Puig advised motogp.com through the Americas GP.
“They’re actually making an attempt, they’re engaged on many various issues.
“They create new folks to the group, they’ve extra manpower. I imply, it is not that they’re sleeping.
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“However then again, we aren’t getting there and the bike just isn’t performing. We did huge adjustments on the bike, we did good enhancements theoretically.
“However you can not see it on monitor. Right now we’re just a little bit confused. We try lots, however we can’t see something actually spectacular on monitor. That is true.”
Joan Mir was extremely crucial of Honda on Friday on the Americas GP, saying it needed to “take duty” for going within the fallacious path with the RC213V idea this season.
After the US spherical, Mir added: “It is determined. The state of affairs may be very troublesome.
“If you wish to do one thing extra, you may’t. And what occurred a bit within the race was this.
“You see your self within the mid-pack, the lap instances, you get near it, you make one lap, two laps recovering, however on the third lap the bike says ‘I quit’.
“This can be a bit the rhythm of the story. Now we have to be sturdy, to work arduous and to proceed to maneuver on from this case the place we’re removed from it.”
