There are several similarities between HRC pairing Ken Roczen and renewed MotoGP Champion Marc Marquez. Both have made vast strides of achievement in their respective sports before the age of 24, both have a way to ride a motorcycle that seems to define the phrase ‘natural talent’ – harnessing power, aggression and total feeling – and both seem to do about their work/hobby with the same zest of individualism.

On a weekend where Marquez took his career numbers up to 5 titles and 3 in MotoGP for the last four seasons and Roczen made an emphatic debut with HRC – only his shocking crash in the second of three heats in Las Vegas letting the Monster Energy Cup million dollars slip through the net, watch it below – then Honda can suddenly start rubbing their hands a little faster with the collection of athleticism they have on their roster for 2017 and beyond.