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If Ken was to do well on the ‘private’ CRF, it would make the official HRC team look very bad & Japan would be asking many difficult questions.
Obviously it makes some serious differences.
From what I know, they are just founded by the american importer (yet the biggest, as it's the biggest dirt bike market in the world, by an enormous margin). As all the others american teams from japanese brands (ktm usa team has a different link with their factory). The Japanese would just pay for some winning bonus, perhaps.
Even though, all of this varying a bit over time.
Hence, among others, to acquire HRC parts American Honda have to buy them to the Japanese.
Japanese could ask (do they care?), yet according to that, American Honda does not have to answer.
2-Hadn't been here for weeks.
3-I'm not the least bit grouchy -quite your opposite, actually.
Pit Row
Where is American Honda ?
HRC on worldwide scene, yes, sure, obviously.
Binded to the fact that as importer's official team, they are allowed to buy HRC parts.
There is the showing of things and then the reality. Don't give credits to flyers.
That's my point. It works differently to what it allows to think, that's why I wrote this post.
Don't get fooled by this inconspicuous hrc (honda's excellency) advertising.
Honda communication in competition use systematically HRC branding, since always.
It's a very constructive, cunning, way to communicate Honda's competiton activities.
Currently, in MX/SX, JapanHonda/HRC fund (and directly involve) solely the MXGP team (and before 2015 it wasn't even the case, since a while).
As I wrote it "Even though, all of this varying a bit over time", their implication evolve, vary in the time. "Nothing black, nothing white, everyting is all grays".
What happens really, exactly, behind the scene, we don't know. Yet, overall, lately, the bond between American Honda and Japan HRC is very thin since quite a long time.
And mainly the thing, it's that teams on the US scene (as any national stage), are initialy funded, and completely managed, budgeted, by the importer.
If he wins on an inferior motorcycle, the sport would go crazy and Ken would be even more of a legend. Everyone loves the underdog.
If he loses, then the yellow bike takes the blame because it’s a dinosaur.
He has said several times that racing in 2023 is not about the money.
I just don’t know if HEP can pull a second truck and support staff out of their ass unless Red Bull picks up the tab.
Back to Roczen and Suzuki. Let’s hope we see something regarding his plans tomorrow
I’ll ask you this: who owns and operates American Honda?
Have you seen the GIANT proving grounds out in the Mojave Desert? (HPC)
How about allllllll those manufacturing plants in Ohio(4), Alabama, North Carolina (3 including “Honda Jet” mfg), South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana…
Oh, and there’s ANOTHER proving grounds in Ohio.
Should you really be calling people stupid when you certainly don’t understand the way things work at AHM, USA…
Japan runs the show…it’s their company.
As is HRC.
Let’s lay it out:
Honda Motor Company, LTD …as in “Honda Japan” aka The Parent Company
American Honda Motor Company, Inc. USA aka, The U.S. -SUBSIDIARY-
You, my friend, might wanna pull your head out before calling anyone-else “stupid”.
However it means nothing to the involvement of the "factory" (HRC for Honda).
In MotoGP all brands communicate in this way about their "private" teams.
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