Marc Marquez on his MotoGP title hopes: “Frustration after frustration” unless you’re “realistic”
Six-time premier class champion Marquez is the main talking point ahead of the 2023 seas꧙on beginning - will his bike𓆏’s performance and his comeback from injury allow him to fight for another title?
"I think it's the first time in many🍒 years that we don't start as favourites,” he told .
“We're not ಌeven among the three or four favourites for the title, either because of my situation or because of Honda's situation, which is not going through its best moment either.
"You have to be realistiꩲc, at least in the first races, because otherwise you're going to get frustration after frustration."
Since Marquez claimed his most recent championship in 2019 and his horrendous injury struggles have begun, he has watched Joan Mir, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia become first-time champions.
Mir will be Marquez’s teammate at Repsol Honda this year, Quartararo is battling his own bike in the Yamaha garage, while Bagnaia is enjoying the best bike thanks to Ducati but might find resistance from new teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini.
But Marquez𒀰 knows that returning 📖to glory in 2023 could establish him in MotoGP history.
He is one championship away from his nemesis 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi’s tally of seven.
The added complexity of Marquez’s injury history, and his return from last summer’s career-threatening surgery,🐻 adds a layer of drama to his challenge this year.
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