The Repsol Honda rider hasn’t added to his six premier class titles in the pas🐼t three seasons, as his injuries have racked up forcing him to question if he could ever return.

But despite a fourth major surgery Marquez ended a disastrous sea🅰son for Honda by claiming a pole position and a podium finish to take him into 2023 with some optimism.

"I would ꦇlike to fight for the title,” he told Teledeporte.es. 

“It's a new challenge, because until 2020 my career had been๊ idyllic, a bed of roses. 

“Now I ♍have lived the other side of the coin, injuries, etc. It's ♚not easy, because the injury has been hard. 

“I am obliged to prepare myself as b🐎est I know, to reach the maximum to go to war. 

“We have a lot of work to do, the tests in Valencia did not go as we expected. Honda is the on💃ly brand that can react to such a situation.”

Marquez’s end-of-year highs🌞 were dampened at the postseason test when he emerged from riding his 2023ꦅ prototype with criticism.

Jorge Lo༒renzo ܫhas warned him: "Marc wants to continue winning the world championships and now with Honda he cannot.”

Marquez has launched a defence oꦺf Alberto Puigꦛ, the Honda team manager who oversaw the terrible 2022 season.

“He is crucial because he is honest,” Marquez said about Puig. “Whe🧔n a person is honest and speaks straight to you, normally this pers൲on doesn’t have a lot of friends.

“Alberto is honest. Inside the tea🎀m, a person like this is most important.”