The MotoGP World Championship debuts this weekend at the Indian Buddh International track
The Honda team has had to delay its trip to this Wednesday while waiting for the visas to arrive
The MotoGP World Championship lands this weekend in India amid uncertainty due to bureaucratic chaos and the novelty of an unprecedented event. The Honda team He has had to delay his trip until this Wednesday while waiting for the visas to arrivewhile on Thursday the required changes should be made at the Buddh International to be able to race this weekend.
While other teams like Yamaha or Ducati already have all the papers, Honda is still waiting for the bureaucratic chaos to be solved so they can travel to India and start preparing for the Grand Prix.
Despite everything, the Spaniards Marc Márquez and Joan Mir, official drivers of the HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) team, are aware of taking the right steps when arriving at a new circuit on the calendar, such as the “Buddh International “.
“I am very excited to meet all the Indian fanssince it is always nice when MotoGP arrives in a new country, with new people and new fans to share our sport and our passion,” Marc Márquez points out in the team’s press release.
“We will have to work a lot to understand everything on the track and about our own situation with the bike, but the goal is to complete another weekend like Misano, work every day and do a good couple of races,” explains the eight-time motorcycling world champion.
The pilot took the visa situation with humor and decided to take advantage of the day. “Flight delayed due to lack of visa for India, so we’re going to pedal for a little while,” he explained in one of his Instagram stories.
Joan Mir in the same sense explains that “visiting a new place is always very exciting, you can see on social networks the number of fans there are in India, so I think it is very important to go see them.”
“The circuit itself looks interesting, with many different elements and there are many things to understand when you go to a new circuit, so it is important to get every step right, from walking the track when we arrive to making the most of each session“says Mir.