The eight-time grand prix world champion will race for Gresini Ducati subsequent season, after a depressing 2023 marketing campaign compelled him into leaving Honda with a 12 months nonetheless left on his contract.
Marquez has raced yearly of his MotoGP profession with Honda, starting along with his debut in 2013, and collectively they’ve gained six premier class titles and notched up 59 wins.
Since making the announcement that he can be leaving Honda, Marquez has by no means closed himself off from the prospect of returning sooner or later – although in Valencia in November conceded this “is not going to solely be my choice”.
“I by no means wish to shut the doorways,” he mentioned, when requested if returning to Honda was a consideration for him if the circumstances inside the producer improved.
“For that motive, I say previously in some interviews, and I’ll say once more: the connection with Honda has been superb and after we determined to alter our journeys, to complete our relationship, it was as a result of each events agreed.
“We now have full respect with that as a result of I don’t wish to put the state of affairs into a really essential second as a result of I wish to have the door open to Honda.
“I say, and perhaps the opposite producers gained’t wish to hear, however Honda would be the workforce of my life, of my profession.
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Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Staff
“I achieved six world titles and lots of victories. I can’t obtain this with one other producers, these numbers.
“Honda will all the time be essentially the most particular workforce in my coronary heart however we are going to see if we will cross once more our futures. It is not going to solely be my choice.”
Marquez’s place at Honda in 2024 can be taken by Luca Marini, who signed a two-year cope with the Japanese marque.
Joan Mir raved concerning the 2024 Honda delivered to the Valencia check after the season, noting that it was the primary time he tried one thing on the RC213V that really labored.
Marquez’s Ducati debut on the check ended with him simply 0.171s off the tempo in fourth on the timesheets.
