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

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

"I would like toܫ fight for the titl✱e,” he told Teledeporte.es. 

“It's a new c🦄hallenge, 🧔because until 2020 my career had been idyllic, a bed of roses. 

“Now I hav👍e lived the other side of the coin, inj♓uries, etc. It's not easy, because the injury has been hard. 

“I am oblig🔴ed to prepare myself as best 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 only brand that can react to such a situation.”

Marquez’s end🃏-of-year highs were dampened at the p✱ostseason test when he emerged from riding his 2023 prototype with criticism.

Jorge Lorenzo has warned him: "Marc wants to continue winning the world championships and now𓂃 with Honda he cannot.”

Marquez has launched a defence of Alberto Puig, the Honda team manager who oversaw the terrible 20𝄹22 season.

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

“Alberto is honest. Inside the team, a person like t📖his is most important.”