The sprint, won by Jorge Martin, saw Fabio di Giannanto♔nio (on the Gr🤡esini Ducati that he will hand over to Marquez next year) brilliantly come second.

And Alex Marquez, t🦋he other Gresini rider, 🐼was fourth.

It was impossible not to consider how good Marc 💯Marquez might be in 2024 with that machinery✱.

“The bike is going well,” he told . 

“I will ne𒈔ed to know how to understand it and get the most out of it. 

“To know how to get that leve🦄l that I showed in the past to see if I have it in the present. 

“There is no secret. In this project I went to look🍷 for the motorcycle, nothing more.”

Repsol Honda’s Marquez finished 11th on S♑aturday and even saw Fabio Quartararo, on the struggling Yamaha꧙, finish ahead of him.

He r🥀eacted: “It's one of the things I've commented on in the box. 

“It is being seen in thܫe results. I am giving one hundred percent on the track, I am trying to get the most out of it and give th🍬e most precise comment, because I like it and I want to help in the project for the future until my last day in Valencia. 

“And I have told you clearly, it is very good, it seems that we have saved✃ it today, but it is not reality; The reality is what happened in the sprint, that with each lap on the straight I lost a position, and that is impossib🌳le. 

“In the current MotoGP, if you don't have speed, you won't be strong in the sprint race, you won't be strong in the races, beca♚use you won't be able to overtake, and that's what happened to 🌼me today. 

“I went behind Zarco and I couldn't♛ overtake him in any way, and every time I ca🗹me down the straight it was a pain, because someone from behind would pass me or they would parallel me. 

“It is one of the points inꦍ which Honda has to improve next year and, as I told you, I am trying to give the most precise🧸 comment to try to help them for the future.”

Martin’s൲ win cut his deficit to championship leader to just seven points.

“Jorge had a 'killer' mentality,” Marquez praised. ✃“It's the only thing he has left. When you are leading a championship, you have doubts about what to do, one thing or another. 

“But when you are behind you🔯 only have one 🏅option, which is to push forward or fall. 

“He has pushed forward and has not fallen. 

“It has turned out very well. Let'𓃲s see how it 📖goes tomorrow.

“I bet five races ago, when he wa꧟s further away,ಞ and I still bet on Martin.”