The principle that when things go wrong they can always go worse suits Honda like a glove. It has hit rock bottom in the last two weeks. Neither Marc Marquez, Alex Rins nor Joan Mir, their three most competitive riders, took part in the last two stops of the calendar, at Sachsenring and Assen, as they were injured.
The most glaring case is that of Marquez, the mainstay of the whole set-up, who decided not to ride in Germany on Sunday after tallying five crashes in two and a half days, breaking several bones. Despite travelling to the Dutch GP and taking to the track on both Friday and Saturday, the Spaniard also sat out the long race after aggravating a cracked rib he sustained seven days earlier.
