Soichiro Honda is probably rolling in his grave after the 2022 German GP. Honda has dominated Grand Prix motorcycle racing’s premier class in the last 40 years, winning 21 500cc/MotoGP championships since 1983. That supremacy wore thin following Marc Marquez’s season-ending humerus injury in 2020.
Since then, the Repsol Honda factory team and LCR (Lucio Cecchinello Racing) Team have struggled to find consistent results. Big Red took drastic measures to address the RC213V's rideability (or lack thereof) following the 2021 season. Despite the team completely reworking the race prototype, no Honda rider has stood on the podium in 2022.
