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Analysis: Why struggling Honda had to redesign its MotoGP engine
While Honda admits the deficiencies of its new MotoGP engine, the Japanese manufacturer insists that it needed to re-design it, or else it "wouldn't have had a future." Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa have been cursing the problems with the re-designed Honda RC213V since the first pre-season test of 2016. The Japanese firm opted for a radical overhaul of its engine philosophy, with its crankshaft now counter-rotating like those of Yamaha and Ducati. However, this modification came at a critical point, given the rule changes coming into play - especially those referring to the electronic control unit, which is now the same for all the field. Apart from having to understand the...
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