In order to see if he can rediscover the “feeling and passion” for MotoGP after a difficult spell, Marc Marquez is leaving Repsol Honda after 11 years to join his brother’s team on an initial one-year contract. Alex Marquez, his brother and soon-to-be Gresini Ducati team-mate, has revealed that the eight-time world champion would consider retirement next year if his move to Gresini doesn’t work out.
In order to see if he can rediscover the “feeling and passion” for MotoGP after a difficult spell, Marc Marquez is leaving Repsol Honda after 11 years to join his brother’s team on an initial one-year contract. Alex Marquez, his brother and soon-to-be Gresini Ducati team-mate, has revealed that the eight-time world champion would consider retirement next year if his move to Gresini doesn’t work out.
He has penned an initial one-year deal with Gresini and, according to his brother Alex, will try to rediscover his “feeling and passion” for the sport.
“He was changing his mind every day. So I spoke with him, not every day, about that,” Alex told TNT Sports at the Indonesian Grand Prix. “But then one day I said ‘you’re changing a lot so I will give you my opinion as a brother, not as a Gresini Ducati rider’.
“From 2020, I think he needed that change, he needed to recover the feeling and passion, because I saw him on the Motegi podium, not happy, as normal Marc is. So I said ‘ok, you need a change’.
“He said he wanted to go to a small team, not saying that a small team is not professional, we are really professional, but the team looks like a small family. We are always together.
“This can help Marc to enjoy [his time] again on the bike and on the track.”
