Repsol Honda MotoGP pairing Marc Marquez and Dai Pedrosa will get a brace of engine specs to evaluate at the Sepang MotoGP test which begins tomorrow in an effort to find a solution to the aggressive power delivery which proved troublesome last season.

One spec is as the duo used at Jerez in the final pre-season test and the second is an evolution which should have a calmer curve. HRC test riders Hiroshi Aoyama and Takumi Takahashi have spent the past two days performing several preliminary tests with the new RC213V prototype.

“We’re just one day before the start of pre-season testing. Of course now the regulations are completely new, with Michelin tyres and the common software, so there are many things to test. First though, Marc and Dani must find their rhythms after two months with no riding,” said HRC technical chief Takeo Yokoyama.

“Here both riders have two bikes equipped with two different engine specs, the one they already tried at Jerez in November and an evolution. We’ll carry out a comparison between the two and of course we’ll work also on chassis, electronics and tyres. We hope that after three days we’ll be able to see the direction of the bike development, which will help us in the tests at Phillip Island and Qatar.

“For the last two days, we’ve been testing with our test riders Aoyama and Takahashi. The track conditions are far from perfect, but even so we’ve found some good directions. The things that worked will be given to our official riders, Marc and Dani, and we hope that they too will find that we’ve gone in a good direction.”