Marquez has not only made his switch from Repsol Honda to Gre🐓sini Ducati for the 2024 MotoGP season, as an impressive performance at the Valencia test has since followed.

Fourth fastest, Marquez made it clear that he means busine♍ss on the Ducati, however, he will do so with a completely new teamꦕ except for Ortiz. 

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The Spanish engineer, who began👍 working with Marquez in Moto2 during the 2011 season, always dreamed of being a mechanic.

Speaking on Honda’s ‘Behind the Dream’ Documentary, Ortiz said: “Since I was little I always wanted🐈 to be a mechanic. I bought a Scalextric and took out the engines of the cars and made fans. 

“When something broke at home like a dryer, my mother, before tꦆelling my dad, told me and would say, Javier, can you fix this. And there I was disassembling𝓀 and assembling. 

“From when I was small I never liked⛎ video games. I never liked being at home. [I preferred] being out on the streets with 🔯friends, playing football.”

In terms of his relations❀hip with Marquez, the pair have grಞown close throughout their time together in the paddock.

Ortiz has been alongside Marquez ever since they joined force🧔s in 2011, which is why he knows the eight-time world champion better than most.

Discuss☂ing his relationship and who Marquez is as a pers🥀on, Ortiz added: “In 2011 I started to work with Marc [Marquez] in Moto2. For me, he is like a little brother. 

“When he crash🍃e𝔍d I needed to repair the bike but the first priority was that he was safe. Even this makes me emotional. 

“Everyone knows him, every🐲one knows Marc. He is an incredible rider. How you laugh with him, the charisma he has, how close he is, but🌊 it is more than all that. 

“How he has💙 always treated people and how I see him treat his people. If you tell me now… Tell me he is the person with the biggest head that you meet. Then the first thing that I am going to tell you it’s him.”