The 2013 Moto2 world champion endured a tough first year on the Honda in 2021, scoring just one podium and finishing 42 points behind team-mate Marc Marquez – who missed four grands prix, but still won three races while recovering from the arm injury that forced him to sit out the entire 2020 campaign.
Following his switch from KTM for 2021, Espargaro battled with Honda’s lack of rear traction that crucially stopped him from utilising his normal riding style of using the rear brake on corner entry.
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But Honda’s radically revised 2022 bike has been showered in praise by Espargaro, who led the Mandalika test by 0.014 seconds having topped the first and final day.
“It’s turned completely,” Espargaro says of the Honda.
“Now I can apply my riding style, my rear brake which I missed so much last year.
“There are so many things where I can ride as I like, as I’ve been riding all my career and last…
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