HRC finds itself trapped, between its own hunger for horsepower and the rules freezing engine development. Believing, as they always do, that what the RC213V really needed was more power, Honda's engineers pushed the limits of power. The riders objected at Valencia, HRC introduced some major electronics updates at Sepang, and the riders then noted the improvement. At Qatar, in the colder temperatures again, that aggressiveness raised its ugly head again, but with a little less than two weeks to go before the start of the season, Honda did not have time to modify the engine, then submit the specs for sealing at the season opener. Honda are now stuck with that engine to the end of the year. The engine freeze means that the only modifications which may be made are for reasons of safety. The security of Marc Márquez' MotoGP title does not fall into that category, which means that HRC have to find different ways of making a more usable bike. That means extensive work on electronics to try to tame the engine. But here, too, Honda face trouble, with software being frozen from 1st July this year, ahead of the adoption of spec electronics for the 2016 season. Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Cal Crutchlow and Scott Redding could find themselves stuck with a bike that is very far from perfect for the second half of 2015, with very little they can do about it.
