Six-time MotoGP World Champion Marc Márquez and fellow Spaniard Pol Espargaró have launched this year’s Repsol Honda Team livery as the new season rapidly approaches.
At age 28 and coming off two difficult seasons with numerous injuries, Marquez is eager to start his 10th season with Repsol Honda and build on his 59 career victories.
“Ten seasons in the Repsol Honda Team is a dream,” the Spaniard said. “I know we will try to win the title to celebrate it well. My goal this year is to fight for the championship. We have started the season well already in Malaysia and now we prepare to head forward to this test in Mandalika.”
Meanwhile, Espargaró achieved his best race result and first pole position on board the RC213V in 2021 to reward the faith shown in him by the team following his Red Bull KTM Factory Racing switch.
The 30-year-old’s British GP pole and second at the Emilia Romagna GP were undoubted highlights of a year full of consistent progress and growth for the 2013 Moto2 World Champion who rides as No. 44.
“I approach this season with more experience which at the end is one of the most important things in MotoGP,” Espargaró said. “We have just five days of testing and knowing already how the team is, how the bike is, what I’m going to find there is already something very important.”
Honda HRC celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2022 and, alongside a new logo, Honda’s four-wheeled competition efforts have been brought under the iconic banner while a revised livery adorns a heavily updated 2022 Repsol Honda Team RC213V – the machine a new Saitama concept.
New aero dynamics complement the revised chassis and upgraded engine for 2022 in the 28th year of the successful collaboration between Honda and Repsol.
“I think it is the biggest change we have seen during the current regulation period,” said HRC Director Tetsuhiro Kuwata. “The concept of the 2022 machine is ‘break out of our shell’ to improve the performance so the whole of the machine is completely different from the last two years.”