Marc Marquez: Every week a different rumour | New aero at Austrian MotoGP
Marquez’s current Honda contract officially runs until the end of next season but there have been regular rumours, never entirely ext💛inguished by the eight-time world champion, that he might even make a shock team switch for 2024.
Quizzed on how crucial next month’s Misano test and first ride on next year’s Honda prototype will be when deciding where to race for 2025, the Spaniard replied🐲:
“You are talking about 2025? The rumours for 2024 still haven’🅠t finished! Every week there is a different rumour! So don’t start with 2025, please!
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“Joking aside, 🌞in Misano the new bike will arrive. We need to continue w🔯orking. But there is no rush [to decide] for the future.
pledged to increase their commitment to the MotoGP project, Marquez warned:“It’s important, the first step is to have the commitment. I believe that Honda have always had the same commitment. Everybody ꦓmust understand t🌺he situation is critical and we must change something together.
“I say ‘we’ because I feel part of this project, and I want the best 🦩for it. They will invest more money and bring in more engineers. But as a rider we only evaluate [progress] on the race track, not in the office or with the technicians.
“I will evaluate the effඣort on the race tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrack, riding the bike. Just like they evaluate my level. This is racing.”
Turning to this weeꦆkend’s event at the Red Bull Ring, an event Marquez missed last season du💦e to the fourth operation on his right arm, the #93 confirmed he will continue the ‘new approach’ from Silverstone.
“The only change at Silverstone was to forget the result, and try to find the limit of our packa🔜ge,” he said.
“Sometimes you are taking risk. At Silverstone my target was to finish without a crash but unfortunately, in a race incident, I crashed on Sunday. Mꦓost importantly I rebuilt my confidence. This is the target again here.”
Marquez then revealed he has decided to homol𒈔ogate the new high-downforce fairing d💜ebuted by LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami at the British round.
“I’m working on myself, training, to improve. Honda is also working, as you ꦛwill see tomorrow; I will try the new aero package. Let’s see if we can improve step-by-ste🅰p, tenth-by-tenth.”
Repsol Honda team-mate will also have the new fairing and wings, which forms their one 🔜allowed in-season update.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and g♓o. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
