Livio Suppo and Honda Racing Corporation held a press conference ahead of the Valencia GP to discuss recent events.

Honda Racing Corporation held a press conference before the Gran Premio Motul de la Comunitat Valenciana to clarify the situation surrounding recent events and to clarify several statements made in the press in recent weeks.

Livio Suppo, HRC Team Principal, addressed the press on behalf of HRC: “ We have no intention at all to create any doubt that we are doing this just to give the court another evidence that can influence the decision. We have been thinking about sharing this and talked with Marc and we think at the moment our priority is this weekend. We are not in the fight for this championship, we’ve won the last three races and Dani has taken the most points of any rider since Aragon. We want to avoid that anyone thinks we’re speaking to influence the court.”

“When we believe this information will be less sensitive we will show you the data, we’re trying to create the situation as calm as possible. I’m sorry we created expectations, but we don’t want to be a part of this championship battle. Marc never did anything to upset this championship and we don’t want to put more fuel on the fire. We don’t want anyone to think we are creating problems for Valentino.”