MotoGP India: Marc Marquez responds to Ducati comments: ‘Nobody is inside my head’
While rumours of an early Honda exit have been circulating since Misano, with Marquez declining multiple chances to end the spec🐓ulation, Ducati had always brushed off the possibility of the 59-time MotoGP w💯inner joining younger brother Alex at Gresini.
But speaking to Dorna’s Jack Appleyard on Saturday a𒈔t the Ind📖ian Grand Prix, Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti said:
“As far as Gresini goes, I think it looks like they have this opportunity and they ar🍌e waiting for Marquez’s🐻 decision.
“We hear what you hear. So he [Mar𒆙quez] wil♍l talk to Honda management in Japan and make a decision. But it’s something up to him and the team.”
Ducati's factory team꧒ manager Davide🧸 Tardozzi then gave similar comments, praising Marquez and saying any team would try to sign him.
"If Marc comes to Ducati, it's fine with us. We like Marc. Everyone loves Marc. he's an eight-time world champion. Marc is the past, the present and the f൲uture," Tardozzi told Spain's DAZN.
"Gresini has the right to choose the best rider possible and, if Marc proposes himself, they have the right and duty to take him into consideration," Tarℱdozzi told Sky Italia. "No one knows what will happen at this moment."
After taking his first top-three finish since the Portimao Sprint in India on Saturday, Marquez was asked about those comments and if he will indeed make a final decision after crunch talks with Honda in Japaꦚn next 🔥weekend, telling MotoGP.com:
“Of course, I he⛎ard those comments but nobody's inside my head. I'm very clever and I know what I want and I know which is the correct time.”
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If his Honda future is still hanging in the balance, Saturday'﷽s performance might have come at a critical time.
"It was a good race," said Marquez, who finished behind only current Ducati title leaders Jorge Martin (1st) and Francesco Bag♛naia (2nd).
"With Marini’s fall and Bezzecchi 👍;out at turn 1, they were two riders that were faster than me. I also knew Binder was starting from the back. So I s💫aw the opportunity.
"In the last five laps💧, I was riding like qualifying, pushing the front [to hold Binder off]. But it was a good day.
"Tomorrow will be more difficult but it looks like at this race trac🥃k, not only me but also Joan [Mir] is riding in a good way.
"It’s also important because normally with this harder rear tyre casing, I’m struggling a lot with my riding style. Here I’m able to change a bit, to not ride in m💜y way, to be very smooth, just some slides to t🌊ake profit."
Peter has been in the padd𝓀ock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
