Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa unveiled the 2017 Repsol Honda Team racing effort at the Jakarta International Expo, located in the centre of the Indonesian capital.
“We’ve started our winter tests well enough, and now we all must keep working and take more steps forward to be prepared to fight at the top again”, Marc Marquez said.
Marquez and Pedrosa unveiled the new Honda RC213V
“Today we officially launched our 2017 season, which is always an exciting moment, even when you’ve already lived it many times. I feel good and I’m really looking forward to starting the new racing year. I’m also happy we came here for our team launch”, Dani Pedrosa added.
Marc and Dani were joined onstage by Tetsuhiro Kuwata (HRC Director – General Manager Race Operations Management Division) and Team Principal Livio Suppo.
Marquez and Pedroa ended the three-day MotoGP test at Sepang on second and fourth position.
“We did a lot of laps, aiming to do as much work as possible. And indeed we did a good job. We completed much of our work schedule, though not everything. Further improvements are needed in some areas where I’m not yet totally comfortable. But even so, I’m happy that we got better and better over the three days. That is the most important thing. We again worked a lot on the electronics and also on the bike setup. In the last hour I did a mini-long run of 11 laps, sacrificing the time-attack a bit, but for us it was more important to work on the pace. I’m generally very happy with how the three days went”, Marquez explained.
Ladies and Gentlemen the RC213V being unveiled in Jakarta! #RepsolHonda2017 pic.twitter.com/izzm1DEB3J
— Repsol Honda Team (@HRC_MotoGP) 3 February 2017
