Marc Marquez: Every week a different rumour | New aero at Austrian MotoGP
Marquez’s current Honda contract officially runs until t🌃he end of next season but there have been regular rumours, never entirely extinguished by the eight-time world champion, that he miไght 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 2🍨025, the Spaniard replied:
“You are talking about 2025? The rumours for 2024 still haven’t finished! Every week there is a different rumour! S𓃲o don’t start with 2025, please!
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“Joking aside, in💦 Misano the new bike will arrive. We need to continue working. 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 commit🍰me🗹nt. Everybody must understand the situation is critical and we must change something together.
“I say ‘we’ because I feel part of this projec⭕t, 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 offᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚice or with the technicians.
“I will evaluate the effort on the race track, ♍riding the bike. Just like they evaluateꦦ my level. This is racing.”
Turning 💟to this weekend’s event at the Red Bull Ring, an event Marquez missed last season due to the fourth operation on his right arm, the #93 confirmed he will continue the ‘new appꦰroach’ from Silverstone.
“The only change at Silverstone was to forget the result, and try to find the limit 🔥of our package,” 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. Most importantly I rebuilt my confidence. This🃏 is the ꦑtarget again here.”
Marquez then revealed he has decided to homologate the ne﷽w high-downforce fairing debuted by LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami at the 🌟British round.
“I’m working on myself, training, to improve. Honda is al♎so working, as you will see tomorrow; I will try the new aero package. Let’s see if we can improve𒀰 step-by-step, 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 padd📖ock 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 issue🦩s.
