Arriving at his most successful circuit of Sachsenring, Marc Marquez’s German GP weekend began by giving his bike the middle finger a༒fter it tried to launch him into orbit.

Five accidents later and Marquez’s weekend 𓃲came to a premature end with a highside in warm-﷽up, which left him slumped against a guardrail.

The pattern repeated itself a week late🍃r at Assen when Marquez also pulled out o🍰f the Sunday race, due to pain from the previous rib fracture.

Speaking on the 92nd and final ltxcn.top MotoGP podcast, former grand prix rider and British champion Keith Huewe🌌n said:

“I watched the entire Sachsenring 'show' from behind the sofa. I𝄹t hurt me just looking at the state of Marc Marquez.

“I've never seen such commitment and dedicatioꦬn to getting more out of a motorbike than it's capable of – and getting more out of himself tha💮n he's capable of at the moment.

“Marc Marquez for me is either a lunatic or an unbridled hero, make your own mi💙nds u𓆉p.

“You've also never seen such emotion from him❀ as he sat against the guardrail. That's a fact.

“There was a time when you would never see pain on the face of Marc Marquez. He would rather🦄 hide in the truck than show any weakness. When he dislocated his shoulder once, he put it back in on the way back to the paddock!”

‘Will Marc Marquez dump Honda?’

“Marc Marquez is in a horrible position at the moment. Will he dump Honda? That’s got♎ to be the crucial question. Will they even let him go early, and dive out for 2024?

“I’ve got to say, I think they all need a different direction. I th𝐆ink Honda needs a different direction. I think that it would do them good to lose Marc Marquez for a while and to rebuild from scratch.

“It's not like Honda is an unknown company that might or might not make it good in the future. The🔥y will come back technical if they have enough time.

“But there is that wider question, will we see the Japanese pull out of MotoGP? I don’t think so, but🍰 Suzuki has gone, Yamaha is still failing and then there’s the Hond𝐆a debacle.

“Can you imagine being a Honda tech and taking the virtual smack in🎉 the face that comes with their riders running a Kalex chassis? It's a scary time.”

“Honda just cannot put one foot right within the rules as they are at the moment,” Huewen continued. “The rules are restricted. You can🦄't do what you want to do as an engineer. There's not enough time in the winter. There's not enough testing ඣallowed.

“Yamaha has made 🌠no discernible improvement compared with the competition and now Honda is in the same position. They're absolutely in dire straits. The one man that could have done it for them is Marc Marquez and it isn’t working for him now either.

“And they might well lose him.

"I’ve said it before, when Alex Marquez went to Ducati, that was a ꦐdoor ajar. And if Marc Marquez really wants something like that, you have to bet on someone giving it to him.”

Quizzed by pod๊cast host Har🐷ry Benjamin on whether Marquez might even decide to call it a day, Huewen said:

“Well, there's the other question. His Granddad has wanted ൩him to pack it in for God knows how long, hasn't he?

👍“You know when you've had enough and don't want to do it to that level anymore. Some riders made the mistake of carrying on. Some rider🐎s need the money, some riders need the rush that you get from racing motorcycles.

“But I can speak from first-hand knowledge on this - it's quite fu༺nny when you hear commentators talking about stuff they do not know about unless they have been a motorcycle racer - 🔴it's never out of your system.

“I was⛄ 31 when I finished racin𒁏g, a year older than Marc, and even now I still wake up in the morninthinking about gear ratios and jetting!”

ltxcn.top MotoGP editor Pete McLaren said: “Marc Marquez has fallen 14 times this𝕴 year, more than any other rider, even though he's missed three ꦯrounds. So there’s no lack of commitment.

“But I think the realܫity of the situation hit him as hard as the final highside at Sachsenri⛄ng.

“2023 will be Marquez’s fourth year in a row without winning the t🦹itle. No rider has ever♌ won the 500 or MotoGP title again after a gap of more than three years, which was by Casey Stoner in 2007 and then 2011.

“I think the events of the Sa𒐪chsenring and Assen weekends just underlined a growing sense of frustration and that crunch time is approaching for Marquez and Honda. He’s fought back from all these injuries and surgeries. He was ready physically, but the bike still isn’t and seems as far away as ever.

“Marc Marquez is going t🔯o have to make a decision sooner or later; stay loyal or go somewhere else.”

“If you want my opinion on tha🌃t, you dump them straight away,” replied Huewen. “The balance is tipping.

"Marc Marquez’s enthusiasm and the magic he had - that guy could do thinꦓgs with a motorbike that no one else could do. But m♛aybe the magic’s gone…

"Or he m♎ight just jump on a Ducati, KTM⛦ or Aprilia and win the world title!”

Download Episode 92 at the following links...