Marc Marquez “a sorry story, he’s trying to get out of Honda contract” after finishing Austrian MotoGP
His fall-from-grace from 2019 champion to a rider who needed🐽 10 rounds just to finish a grand ✨prix has been stark.
Finally, at the Red Bull Ring, a 12th-place ♚finish ended his awful run of not completing a Sunday race this year.
“It’s painful,” sa🔯id TNT Sports’ Neil Hodgson. “He’s smiling but it must be killing his soul inside.
“Marc is 𝐆an animal, isn’t he? A winning machine. An eighꦇt-time world champion.
“He has never been slow, nev♐er settled for anything. But he’s having to. He’s trying to gather ꦅdata.
“He’s got a contract with Honda next year. I’m sure he’s doing all that he can to get out of it. I’m s๊ure he is, and trying to get on another bike.
“You watch 🥃him - the first points of the year? How long ago does Portugal seem? Seems like a year ago.
“Incredi🗹ble, really. A sorry story, for🗹 Honda and Marc.”
Sylvain Guintoli reflected on his fi꧂rst finish of the year: “Thatꦬ’s just how much he’s struggling. The pole lap he did, the front row, and what he did at the start of the season, he was over-riding.
“It was great to watch, great entertainm🌠ent. He made a few mistake൲s as well.
“But, so many crashes for him. He just couldn’t g💛o on. He h♔as pressed the reset button.
“He is basically using the races as tests to improve tꦉhe bike because he knows that he isn’t 𒅌at the level of the competition.”
Marquez was the only rider to use a soft rear tyre, a💞 sign that he was ignoring results to completely prioritis🌼e development of Honda’s future bike.
He is contracted to remai﷽n with Honda for the duration of his deal, until the end of next year, and has claimed that he will stay until then.
But Marquez has also flirt🦂🔥ed with a switch to KTM, who were competing at their home race in Austria.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everytღhing from American sports, to football, to F1.
