The Repsol Honda team held the launch of their 2023 MotoGP season in Madrid this weekend, and the Iberian Contingent of the Paddock Pass Podcast took a train up to Madrid to attend. Right afterward, Adam Wheeler and Neil Morrison sat down to discuss what they had heard and seen.

Adam and Neil discuss Marc Marquez walking back his remarks about Honda made in the documentary series All In, they discuss the new organizational rigor which Ken Kawauchi has brought to HRC from Suzuki, and they look at what to expect from Joan Mir, the second time that a former world champion has joined Repsol Honda to partner Marc Marquez.

Can Marc Marquez win again? Will Joan Mir get on the podium? Will the Honda RC213V which starts at Portimão be anything like the bike they rolled out at the Sepang test? And is Marc Marquez' series All In any good? All this and more, with a few words from Marquez and Mir as well.

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