Bradl better than Dovizioso as stand-in
Marquez has been absent since breaking his factual arm in remaining year’s Spanish Worthy Prix and has since gone through three operations to factual the harm – the most modern in December possible to rule him out for the opening rounds of the provisional 2021 calendar.
HRC take a look at rider Bradl stood in for Marquez from the Czech GP onwards, scoring two high 10 ends in the closing six races.
After shedding his place at Ducati for 2021, Dovizioso is taking a sabbatical this year and hasn’t ruled out the opportunity of standing in for Marquez at Honda can also honest quiet the provide emerge.
But, talking to Motorsport.com’s Spanish GP podcast, Hernandez – who acted as Bradl’s crew chief – wouldn’t learn this as a “long-established” transfer for Honda and thinks the “mammoth job” Bradl did in 2020 warrants him being the essential in line to replace Marquez all all over again.
“I’d no longer learn it long-established for Honda to note Dovizioso to replace Marc,” said Hernandez.
“If at some stage in the year you’ve got thought about the selection and incorporate him [Bradl] as a take a look at rider and in the stop you’ve got ruled him out – because, among numerous issues, Stefan has accomplished a mammoth job – properly, I’d no longer note that you just signed that rider for 3 races.
“It will compose great more sense for that replace to be Bradl, because he is the one who has one of the best sensations with the bike.
“He is the one who has understood issues that occur in races and which would possibly perchance be most effective understood in a gargantuan prix.
“Because of the he has the price and since he is the tester who is sorting out issues to beef up the bike, who better than him to replace Marc?”
A total of nine riders won races in 2020, with 15 taking to the podium all around the 14-spherical campaign.
The more or less consistency Marquez has shown in most modern years in his hunt for the championship was largely absent from the grid remaining season, with Hernandez tremendously stunned that the likes of Dovizioso, Maverick Vinales and Fabio Quartararo were unable to fill the void left by Marquez.
“These that had to punch the desk and place themselves as leaders didn’t build so,” he added.
“No one has. The unpleasant element is that people handle Vinales, Quartararo or Dovizioso were in a single other world.
“It is some distance as if the hare had been taken from the greyhounds and had stopped running.
“Maybe at the delivery of the season they were preparing to notify the championship, all of sudden [the reigning champion] disappeared, and as well they didn’t know what to construct and as well they were lost.
“Quartararo won the essential two races at Jerez after which disappeared. He somewhat tremendously stunned me.”
Extra reporting by Lewis Duncan