Marc Marquez: I heard the rumours, I have a two-year MotoGP contract with Honda
The Spanish star signed a lengthy four-year agreement, covering the 2021-2024 seasons, just a few months before the start of his arಌm i📖njury woes in 2020.
While Marquez’s arm has responded well to a fourth 𝕴round of surgery in June, Honda’s RC213V finished 🅷last season at the bottom of the constructors’ ranking and - for the second time in three years - without a race win.
Thꦿat has fuelled rumours that the eight-time world champion, a R🍰epsol Honda rider since his 2013 MotoGP debut, might be able to trigger some kind of exit clause for 2024.
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“I heard about these rumours,” Marque🎃z told MotoGP.com. “I have a two-year contract with Honda and my dream is to come back to the top with Honda. I believe a lot in them, we respect each other a lot. We have a long relationship and I think this will help us to go out of this deep situation.”
Speaking separately at Wednesday's Repsol Honda team launch, Marquez admitted he had🐈 applied pressure on Honda but that now is the time to be ‘patient’.
“As you saw in the [Marc Marquez: All In] documentary, you have to understand when you can put pressure or not,” he explained. “Sometimes yo💫u have to do something to have a reaction…and Honda also makes demands of me.
“Sometimes you must push as a rider. For example, there was a time to push Honda and now is the time to be patient and work together. We have a very long r⛄elationship and we respect each other a lot."
The 30-year-old added: "As you see in the docu-series, in Austria [2022] we had a nice and productiv💟e meeting with Honda and HꦕRC. It was the time to do it and react for 2023.
"It was time to do some change and also HRC recognise it was the tim𝐆e and they did it. For example,⛦ [changing] the technical manager to Ken-san [Kawauchi].
“🍌I am convinced that we 𓄧will come back to the top together.
“The patience now is very big and total🦩ly recharged… We have two more years of contract where the target is to fight for the world championship and to put Honda where it should be.”
Marc's younger brother Alex has switched from Honda to Ducati for this season and finished ahead of his brotဣher at the recent Sepang ಞtest.
Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli is𓄧 the only factory team rider whose contract expires at the end of 2023.
Peter has been in 𓃲the 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.
