Marc Marquez gets permission for Ducati debut at 2023 Valencia MotoGP test

Marc Marquez has been cleared to make his Gresini Ducati debut at next month’s Valencia MotoGP test.
Alex Marquez, Marc Marquez, British MotoGP, 4 August
Alex Marquez, Marc Marquez, British MotoGP, 4 August

Repsol Honda team manager Alberto Puig told🐷 MotoGP.com that: “There will be no objection from Honda for Marc to ride at t🥂he Valencia test.”

Altho🎃ugh Marquez and Honda have agreed to annul the final year of his current contract, allowing a switch to Gresini for 2024, Marquez is contracted to HRC until the end of this year and therefore needed special permission to ride at the Valencia test, which follows the season finale.

Marquez’s Repsol Honda replacement is yet to be announced but current Gresini rider Fabio di Giannantonio is now hotly t𒉰ipped to swap places with the eight-time world champion.

The Valencia test takes place on November 28.

When Valentino Rossi left Honda at the end of 2003, the Italian was famously denied the chance to ൲test f🥀or his new Yamaha team until January 2004.

Former rider Puig took over as Repsol Honda team manager 🐈in 2018.

 

 

Peter has been i🌞n the paddock 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.

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