Repsol Honda team manager Puig is under pressure after a horrible season - in Germany he oversaw the first MotoGP race in 40 years where Honda scored zero points, he watched star man Marquez undergo a career-threatening surgery then somehow still out-score his teammates in the end-of-year 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings.

Marquez, who has enjoyed his heyday alongsi🍌de Puig as well as his darkest moments when his racing future was at stake, said with two races left in 2022: “The people can speak bull**** about Alberto, but for me he is crucial.

“He is crucial because he is honest. When a person is honest and🍸 speaks straight to you, norm༒ally this person doesn’t have a lot of friends.

“Alberto is honest. Inside 🦋t🍷he team, a person like this is most important.

“He doesn’t care if you are an eight-time world champion - he doesn’t care if you𝔉 are an engineer from NASA! He doesn’t care🔴!

“If he says or believes ‘this is not the direction’, he will say iไt to you. He is a person who helps a lot.

“I have h🥀eard many comments about Alberto but I am very happy with h﷽im.”

Puig said: “I know Marc very well, he is our rider, he i🤪s my friend. I fully understand what he is going through.

“I am connected to his programme.

“When you enter this type of position in a racing team you must und💃erstand that you will have good and bad moments.

“If you pr🍸etend it will be 🎃paradise, it means you don’t understand this racing field.

“We have had very good years, now we are suffering real♎ly b﷽adly.

“How do I handle it? I just handle it.”

Marquez was speaking ahead of the Malaysian MotoGP, by which time he had recovered from his latest major surgery to score a pole position in Japan and a podium fཧinish in Australia. An awful year for Honda finally had some hope for the future.

He ended the season in 13th despite missing six rounds due to injury - somehow, still above fellow Honda riders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pol Espargaro and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Takaaki Nakagami.

That optimism was partially wiped out when Marquez criticised Repsol Honda’s 2023 prototype bike at the ♊postseason Valencia test.

His brother Alex will be in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 MotoGP rider line-up for Gresini Ducati, a move♊ which may worry Honda if it paves the way for their star man to eve🦹ntually follow.