#Honda HRC

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Honda se refuerza con todo: Skyler Howes llega al equipo oficial Honda HRC

Honda ha dado el golpe al mercado del Mundial de Rally Raid FIM W2RC y el Dakar 2024 hoy al confirmar al tercer clasificado del último Dakar 2023 como quinto piloto oficial de Honda HRC. Se trata del estadounidense Skyler Howes, que con 31 años viene haciendo ruido en el rally cross country desde su debut en el Dakar 2019.

“Correr para el Honda HRC es un momento destacado de mi vida y mi carrera. Aprendí a conducir una Honda XR75 cuando tenía 3 años y comencé mi carrera en los rallies con una CRF450X, por lo que mis raíces están profundas en Honda. Tener también el apoyo de Monster Energy es enorme para mí y estoy muy emocionado de ver lo que el equipo y yo podemos lograr juntos. Después de un podio en el Dakar mi objetivo sigue siendo el mismo, divertirme lo máximo posible y seguir alcanzando lo más alto del podio” declaró Howes, que además de la P3 de 2023 tiene un noveno lugar en 2020 y un quinto puesto en 2021.

El jefe de equipo Ruben Faria se mostró muy contento con la incorporación de Howes a Honda HRC: “Estamos muy contentos de darle la bienvenida a Skyler. Es un piloto joven, pero con bastante experiencia en los rallies: fue tercero en el último Dakar y ganó en Marruecos. Es bastante completo y rápido fuera de pista. Con él tendremos un súper equipo para el Dakar 24 y estoy seguro de que Skyler nos ayudará a estar en lo más alto de la clasificación”.

Por el momento, Honda contará con cinco riders en Marruecos y el Dakar, con Quintanilla, Cornejo, Brabec, Van Beveren y Howes en la alineación oficial.

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Acura Integra Type S HRC Concept, 2024. Developed by Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) in California and presented at Monterey Car Week, a track focused version of the Integra. Weight has been reduced nearly 200lbs thanks to the use of carbon fibre and removal of the air-conditioning and rear seats. There's increased downforce and improved aerodynamics based on the Integra Type S TCX race car in addition to a larger intercooler, twin oil coolers and a tuned, lightweight cat-back exhaust system. All of this previews a "potential" range of HRC accessories for Integra Type S

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HRC NSR 500 V2

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Honda XRV 650 Africa Twin - 1988

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Now, the problem with the corner post in the hairpin is that it's set on the inside of the hairpin, well away from the track, in a location with less than ideal visibility from the riders' perspective. As Rossi passed Stoner, neither Rossi nor Stoner saw the yellow flag, but the eagle-eyed Nicky Hayden, following in their wake, did see it being waved, and assumed that Rossi would be punished for passing under yellow. The penalty for passing under yellow is to raise your hand and immediately cede the position you have just gained, or else cede the number of positions decided and communicated by the Race Direction. But neither Race Direction, nor any of the marshals, spotted Rossi's infraction, and so no board was shown. To further confuse matters, Stoner briefly poked his nose ahead of Rossi again coming out of the hairpin and going through Siberia, the following turn. Technically, Rossi had ceded the advantage he had gained, albeit briefly. The issue would haunt the race, and the aftermath, for a while to come.

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Immediately after the race, Hayden's Repsol Honda team lodged an official protest about Rossi's yellow flag pass on Stoner. The protest was in vain, however. Neither the track-side officials, nor the Race Director responsible for monitoring the race via the TV images had seen the pass. Rossi and Stoner both denied seeing the yellow flag, and the crash situation which had caused the yellow flag seemed to be totally under control, meaning there was no danger to any of the riders either on or off the track at that moment in time. A punishment which would do justice to all the players in the drama seemed difficult to formulate, and impossible to apply. HRC were furious. A formal letter of protest was sent to the FIM, and a couple of days later, the race stewards at Phillip Island formally apologized to Nicky Hayden for not catching the whole situation. By this time, Hayden himself had become more gracious about the whole affair, saying "The bottom line is that he (Rossi) didn't pass me under a waved yellow so I've got no reason to complain". But the affair smoldered on, leading the FIM to announce a week later that they would be reviewing yellow flag procedures, including the possibility of using new technologies to improve communication around the track.

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Rossi, meanwhile, maintains that he didn't see the yellow flags and shouldn't have been punished anyway since Stoner retook him on the exit of the corner, although - once again - he should actually have let Stoner back ahead and raised his hand to avoid punishment. "I didn't see the yellow flags in Phillip Island, but I have been unlucky with them before and I was lucky this time. Stoner retook me and I was saved by that," claimed the seven-times world champion, who was stripped of his 2003 British Grand Prix victory for passing under a yellow flag, but won the 2003 Australian Grand Prix despite a ten-second penalty for the same offence.

Phillip Island 2006 (x, x)

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Victoria para Pablo Quintanilla en el prólogo del Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge

El piloto chileno Pablo Quintanilla partió con el pie derecho el Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge al imponerse en el prólogo. Fueron apenas 6 kilómetros para determinar el orden de salida de la primera etapa larga de 404 kilómetros de mañana, pero siempre es positivo partir con la referencia. Quintanilla marcó un tiempo de 5 minutos exactos, suficiente para ganar el día con 2 segundos de ventaja sobre su compañero de equipo Adrien van Beveren. Toby Price fue tercero a 5 segundos. El Top 5 lo completaron Mason Klein y Ross Branch.

Nacho Cornejo comenzó el rally con una décima posición anotando un tiempo de 5 minutos y 25 segundos.

Nasser Al-Attiyah se impuso en los autos, ganando por 4 segundos sobre Guerlain Chicherit y 10 sobre Sebastien Loeb. Yazeed Al-Rajhi fue cuarto a 11 segundos.

Resultados Prólogo

Pablo Quintanilla (Honda) 5:00

Adrien van Beveren (Honda) 5:02

Toby Price (KTM) 5:05

Mason Klein (KTM) 5:08

Ross Branch (Hero) 5:16

Ricky Brabec (Honda) 5:16

Sebastian Buhler (Hero) 5:18

Luciano Benavides (Husqvarna) 5:18

Tobias Ebster (GasGas) 5:22

Nacho Cornejo (Honda) 5:25

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dear chase sexton,

please cut off the literal 10 blonde hairs you have left.

thank you, sam

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Vintage HRC lid

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I need to say, Honda WSBK had a better bike livery, but the MotoGP team won the leathers competition