How Honda’s stubbornness has left it in a MotoGP no-man’s land

The principle that when things go wrong they can always go worse suits Honda like a glove. It has hit rock bottom in the last two weeks. Neither Marc Marquez, Alex Rins nor Joan Mir, their three most competitive riders, took part in the last two stops of the calendar, at Sachsenring and Assen, as they were injured.

The most glaring case is that of Marquez, the mainstay of the…