The MotoGP star rider is an eight-tꦜime world champion, six in the premier class, and is lauded 𓃲among the best of his generation.

But a dreadful period since winning the 2019 title - interrupted by career-threatening injuries and Honda🐟’s fall-off - have resulted in him ma๊king admissions that never felt possible.

“The summer break arrived at the bes✨t moment f🍃or me, the correct moment,” he told .

“I was injured, I was empty in races. There were crashes. The rib was broken, the f🌞inger broken, the ankle…

“I took time to rebuild my body and energy. And I had ♌time to prepare the second hal👍f of the season.

“I’m still not 100%, especially on my right leg. But it’s acceptable to ri𒁃de the bike.

“𓆉When I had the arm injury it was a difficult moment, very demandi🐓ng, four different surgeries.

“Now I feel ready to fight for victories but, for some reason, I am not ab♛le to do it.

“That becomes difficult on the mental side.

“Crashes, injuries, in my 𒈔pro🔯fessional life this is the hardest moment. But my personal life is at its best moment so this compensates a bit.”

Marquez arrived injury-free into 2023 after incredibly battling back from a fou💙rth arm surgery 🌃a year ago which might have ended his career.

But he crashed on the first weekend, injuring a hand, then had back-to-back weekends in Germany a🐷nd the Netherlands where he was constantly in the gravel, and he withdrew from both grands pr💞ix.

Astonishingly after nine rounds of the championship, Marqu༒e♍z has yet to complete a Sunday race.

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“All my career has been very sweet, flowers, very easy, aಌ lot of wins and eight world championships,” he said.

“Then one day my nightmare started.

“It was so difficult. Three years of suffering.

“It was time to say: ‘Maybe this is the time to stop my career’🧜.

“But still the passion and motivation is there.

“Some people around me said ‘it’s tim♔e to stop’. But most said ‘𓃲continue’.”

Many of Marquez’s problems surround his Honda - his team and fellow Japanese manufacturer Yamaha have fallen way behind their European counterparts, initially💎 Ducati but now also KTM and Aprilia.

It has led to speculation that he could seek a new𝓡 environment although, at Silverstone, he revealed his expectation to stay at Honda in 2024.

“Every year when I start the season it’s to figh꧟t for the champ🅘ionship,” he said.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s the ninth championship or the f𝓡irst. I will fight in the same way.

“But it’s true that, toda♒y, we cannot think about the championship.

“The reality is we are not ready to win. Not me, not the🦹 bike, many reasons♉.

🌳“In three𒆙 years I have completed just half of the races. Many injuries. It is time to rebuild confidence.

“Then I hope, next year, to think about the championsh🦄ip.”