“Easy way was to stay in Honda. Less pressure, more money”

Talking at Saturday night’s Gresini Ducati group introduction, the eight-time world winner – who arranged an early exit from the ultimate year of his enormous cash HRC bargain after two winless seasons – kept up “I trust our prospects will cross again”.

“Of course, it was a super troublesome choice, for that reason it took me a long time, until after Motegi,” Marquez said.

“But on the other side my desire is the same as 2013. In case I’m here, it’s since I feel I have the chance or level to battle for the beat 5 positions.

“I cannot say fight for championship, since you wish additional in numerous zones, but still I feel I can battle for best 5-6 positions.

“So I chose that [Gresini Ducati] heading to drag out my career. As it were this. The simple way was to remain in Honda. Less weight, more cash in my bank. But it’s not the target.

“I’m exceptionally grateful to Honda and I said at the Honda Much obliged Day and I’ll say once more, that I trust our prospects will cross once more.

“But it’s not as it were my choice.

“I ought to quick on the race track, to open more entryways in future. In the event that I am fast on the course at that point I will be in distant better;a much better;a higher;a stronger;an improved”>a stronger position to select my future.”
Marquez has marked as it were a one year deal with Gresini, where he will race nearby more youthful brother Alex this season.

In the mean time, after falling flat to induce on best of the RC213V’s insufficiencies for a few seasons, the 2024 Honda model was welcomed as a genuine step forward by Marquez’s previous team-mate Joan Mir at the Valencia test.

Marquez, Honda’s most fruitful terrific prix rider in history with 59 wins, demanded he never questioned the factory will return to the beat, but the enormous address stamp is how long it’ll take.

“The greatest question on the off chance that it’s planning to happen in a month, two a long time or one year,” Marquez said. “This was moreover the hazard from the point of see of my career. I thought the most excellent choice was to do this [connect Gresini Ducati].

“But Honda is Honda. HRC will unquestionably convey and have huge comes about [in the long run], but the greatest alter they did [so distant] is changing project leader.”

Luca Marini will take over Marquez’s situate at Repsol Honda and work with the Spanish star’s previous group headed by Santi Hernandez.