During the San Marino MotoGP at Misano this weekend, reports emerged that Marquez has stunningly dec𝔍ided🐻 to join Gresini Racing next season to team with his brother Alex Marquez.

It would mean the six-time premier class champion is ending his lucrative H🌱onda deal early, and making a stunning move to Ducati.

Without confirming his intention, Marquez was quoted by : “The Gresini team is a team with a lot of history, in which the motorcycles go very well and my brother has found 𒁏his place perfectly. 

“While it is true that he ca🦂me from a completely different situꦛation than mine, I am in another situation. 

“He bet on his future and is doing very well with the Gresini team, which is a family s🍒tory and my brother, although he is my brother, is a different person. 

“He is looking for 𝓡a different type of environment, but it is a very pro🤡fessional team in which Enea Bastianini triumphed last year and my brother is doing very well, but nothing more.

“There are many professional teams with a very good techn🍃ical level in the paddock and it is being shown that▨ any satellite team can fight for victories every weekend.”

He said about wanting further glory: “I am in the phase where I want 🍨to be world champion, and to be world champion I have to see that tꦛhe team I am on also wants to be. 

“I want t𝕴o be like a rider who when he needs to change something has to ♚react and, when things don't work out in a team and you have to change, you have to react. 

“If I see that reaction and that interest or I see that things are not being done as they should, well... I wi🧔ll look𓂃 for a life when I don't have a contract. 

“If you have a contract, then you have to keep looking for 𝓀the best f꧙or the project.”

Marquez was asked if Honda wo🎃uld allow him to leave, despite being contracted for 2024, if he expressed a desire to quit.

“I have not touched on that issue with Honda because I think it would not be good for the project right no☂w,” he said. 

“They are very focused, they are working aꦰ lot and here we will test the new motorcycle.&ꦑnbsp;

“If you intend to and have a contract with a braꦍnd, the worst thing you can do, I think, is to threaten to leave,🐻 because then everything can explode.

“So I think that my mentality with Honda ha💞s to be a constructive mentality, look for the best at all times and I think that now, personally, the best thing for the project is to stay united, keep working and I think that is how they also interpret it. 

“Because they haven't told me anything, so we'll see how this weekend goes and we'll see how Monday go🍨es and we'll continue building to look for a better level for 2024.”

The Misano test on Monday is the first time that Marque🌼z will gain an understanding of Honda’s development for next year, and he has long described its importance in terms of his future.

Now, it may arrive with Marquez already kn💛owing that he is destined for Ducati.

He said about the importance of the test: “For me everything is importaꦡnt. Obviously, on Monday you have it out of the corner of your eye and you ask how the bike is, how it was in Japan, that they did some laps and you are interested, but this is important. 

“We have very small things, but we have things to try this weekend which are the two di❀rections of the set up, which Nakagami will try and I will also try. 

“I ha𝓀ve been testing it since the last grand prix and there is a little something to try to understand how to get more grip, traction, which is where we are lacking.&nb🧸sp;

“On Monday we will♌ test the new bike and coming out of the☂ pits we will know exactly if it is going better or worse.”

What’s more important, Marquez was asked, the instinct on Monday’s bike or Honda’s feelings ♌for 2024?

“Both are important,” he answered. 

“The sensations with the bike on Monday are important because you know that it will be the bike for the advance of Valencia and from then on the bike cannot change much, but it i💝s true that Honda is making moves, incorporating Japanese engineers from other departments and relying onꩲ the Formula 1 department. 

“There are many movements within Honda in Japan, sometimes you don't know it is there, but they are informing me about everything and there are new faces in the garage, new engineers and this as a rider is valued a lot.&nbꦕsp;

“But the final evaluation is the practice and the practice is on 🍒the track. 

“That's where, as I said last time, a rider is valued by the results ꦕand it doesn't matter if he trains for an hour on the bike or a thousand hours. 

“A rider values ​​the bike by the results, it doesn't matter if it's done in one way or another, or in an hour or a thousand. That is where I am going to evaluဣate.”