The 2025 MotoGP season begins with the Grand Prix of Thailand after a long winter break.

Ducati will try to continue their sovereignty in the top class after winning everyone except one race in 2024.

Bologna -based outfit was a huge boost for the first race, as Jorge Martin is about to lose the Thai GP. The defense champion requires further surgery after a setback in his recovery from the Sepang crash.

But Ducati will face competition from Aprilia and KTM in Buriram. The former still seems strong in Martin’s absence thanks to Marco Bezzecchi and the letter has four fixed factory riders capable of provoking.

Yamaha has a huge step forward after a pre-season. The Japanese manufacturer hopes to return to the form after a few years of disappointing.

Honda has also seen signs of improvement thanks to the MotoGP concession system. But it causes some “dissatisfaction” within the LCR satellite group.

LCR Honda feels ‘dissatisfaction’ as they spend more time away on tests

LCR defeated the Honda factory team last year, as the manufacturer finished last in the manufacturers’ championship. The Monte Carlo-Who-based outfit has won three matches at MotoGP-Will Field Johann Zarco with champion Somkiat Chantra in 2025.

Honda has offered more testing time the MotoGP concession system in an effort to bridge the gap in the field. While this will be extremely beneficial to the manufacturer, journalist Simon Patterson says this causes “discontent” to the LCR as they spend more time than the factory.

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“The big step, the big, big improvement from last year was this test team that have been built,” he said through the MotoGP YouTube Channel race.

“The fact that they now have Aleix Espargaro and Takaaki Nakagami who do all these projects for them, who basically play a role that Stefan Bradl was really until he did the last years of his time there.

“Where they have two noun MotoGP riders who now hope they will start delivering spare parts to the team ready for racing so that we don’t see Honda spending a whole day, basically tasting the mid-race.

“He is sabotaging the notes before starting the weekend when he appears with a load of new components and we don’t hope to do so this year.

“Part of this is also because they finally did what we basically shout at them for about three years and hug Motogps new concession system.

“They use the concessions so much that they are really a little dissatisfaction in the satellite team LCR that clearly spending much more time away from home.

Somkiat Chantra surprised LCR Honda at his pace in pre-season

Honda had some encouraging signs of evolution in the pre-session. But Joan Mir and Luca Marini disagree about Honda’s progress, with the bike lacking speed, but improving under braking.

Zarco says Honda will find four tenths free if they can correct their vibration problems. The Frenchman suffered the second season of the sausage at MotoGP with the 17th in 2024-the highest Honda Rider.

Zarco Chantra’s LCR teammate is one of the three champions in the top class this season. The Thai rider goes up from Moto2 along the AI ​​Ogura champion and Fermin Aldeguer.

The 26-year-old is heading to his first MotoGP Race-His Grand Prix-off on the back of a decent pre-season. Chantra surprised LCR at the pace in Sepang as he improved every day.