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Santi Hernandez and Ramon Aurin look ahead into 2022

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The experienced pair of Race Engineers enter the 2022 season in unique circumstances compared to recent years, and both have clear targets in mind.

Santi Hernandez and #ramonaurin, Race Engineers to #marcmarquez and #polespargaro respectively, sat down to cover a variety of topics ahead of the first race of the 2022 season. The pair chatted about everything from rider feedback to their opinions of each other and even which side of the garage gets an extra ten minutes in the hotel.

Q: Do your riders listen to you? What’s the balance between suggesting ideas and listening to feedback?

RAMON
“Sometimes they listen to us, but I don’t know how much they catch from our advice. Normally all the riders want to follow your suggestions that you give them. But sometimes when they are on track and the situation changes, they don’t follow this advice. This is my situation; I don’t know about you Santi.”

SANTI
“Yeah, like always we try to advise them the best after checking everything with all the staff of the team. Of course, the opinion from the rider is very important too because it is not only us who have the truth. Sometimes you must listen more to the rider’s comments because the problem is coming more from what he’s feeling. Maybe in flag-to flag-situations you have to listen more to the rider because this is what he can feel and make the difference.

“In another side or situation, the rider listens more to the staff because we have all the data, more information and maybe he listens more. But at the end we are deciding all together, not the rider, not the technical staff. For me it’s between.”

Q: How does Marquez’s team help Espargaro’s team?

RAMON
“We know Marc, we know he is a champion. Then he has known this bike for eight or nine years. Normally when he says an opinion in one item it is right. We try to follow, and sometimes copy, the suggestion and the action that they do. Even if our rider, Pol, says ‘I don’t feel better,’ we try it for him and see if it’s really the same for him because he (Marc) is the reference anyway in #honda and in MotoGP.”

Q: How does Espargaro’s team help Marquez’s team?

SANTI
“For me the other side of the garage is always a help to us, especially in the last two years where we weren’t 100% all the time. Even for Ramon, it is not easy every year changing the rider. When you know the rider, you change and then you start from the beginning and again one more year you start from the beginning. I hope this year his job will be easier because he knows Pol for one year, he knows the rider’s style and many things, and of course it will help us. All HRC riders are trying to help because is very important all this information.”

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