MotoGp, Marquez: “After 4 operations, this year I believe in it. Honda? Victory and defeat together”

Marc Marquez is got back. The signs were already there at the end of last season, but this time he’s back for the entire championship. He had come close to winning in Australia, he had hit the front row in Malaysia, but they were still flashes in a year of convalescence, after four surgeries on his battered right arm. Now Spanish come on tests in Malaysia he took the sap to immediately arrive to challenge the Ducatis in the first GP of the season in Portugal on 26 March.

“My feeling is positive,” said the eight-time world champion in Madrid, “I’m always trying to be positive, I believe in it. I feel good, in the tests in Malaysia we made progress in terms of physical condition. The team Honda he is constantly trying to improve, I believe in Honda and my hope is that we can do it together”.

Marquez: “Honda and I are good together”

Marquez has recently presented the docu-series All-In, between processions and crowds. But his thoughts immediately turn to Portimao: “Expectations are high, but we’re used to living with all this pressure. I’ll try to give my 100%, I’m ambitious, then we’ll see during the season where we’ll go. Honda? We’re a team, if we lose we do it together, if we win it’s the same. In Malaysia we did very well, I’ll work on myself, Honda will also work on the bike, we’ll try to be faster and faster and be ready for the race of Portimao”.

A Marquez on the Ducati, the new challenge for the Gresini team

by Massimo Calandri

January 22, 2023

Marquez still hasn’t got a clear idea of ​​the 21 sprints that will enrich a already demanding calendar: “It’s a new format, everything will be more difficult”. There is not only his candidacy to challenge Ducati, in the Honda team, but also the name of his teammate who will be the 2020 champion Joan Mir. An all-Spanish team, which opposes the red domination with a new, rediscovered champion.