Honda has made a significant change to its engineering structure as it has moved aside chief technical officer Shinichi Kokubu, which comes amidst ongoing uncertainty over Marc Marquez's MotoGP future.
Kokubu's departure is significant, especially because it comes in the middle of the season, and precisely when Honda is shaking up its structure to try to get out of the complicated situation it is going through.
Honda is at the bottom of the constructors' table, where it has 123 points, two less than Yamaha, despite the fact it has two more bikes on the grid than its fellow Japanese marque and having won a grand prix earlier this year withAs Honda evaluates a number of options to replace Kokubu, the timing of his departure comes as Marquez considers whether to honour his contract with HRC for 2024 or make a shock switch to Gresini Ducati to try to revive his fortunes.
In recent weeks it became known that Marquez had demanded Honda to make new technical hires, ideally from European manufacturers, in order to help push development of the RC213V. This news could be seen either as an attempt to persuade Marquez - who insisted on Thursday in Japan that
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