Marc Marquez: “Honda riders aimed at me, I’ll do the same with Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin”

Marquez was unveiled alongside his brother 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez in the blue of Gresini Racing at the weekend, showing off the Ducati which he hopes will restore him to the front of MotoGP.
But 🐟chief among the new issues that Marquez w꧅ill face is his seven fellow Ducati riders, including last season’s champion Bagnaia and runner-up Martin.
"Logic꧟ally when the new riders arrived in Honda they ‘aimed’ at me,” he told at the Gresini launch.
“Now I will do the same with Bagnaia andꦅ Martin who are the two strongest and who are making the differenc💮e.
“I have to learn a lot of things from the two of them to🍨 understand how to ride this bike.”
Marquez will ride a GP23 this season, the bike which Bagnaia💯 and Martin rode as they battled over last year’s championship.
The factory Ducati and Pramac riders will steꦓp onto a new GP24.
Marquez added: “Toughest opponent? In the end I'm ☂worried more about myself, because I have to manage myself.
“We have a lot of work to do, the expectations are very high but I want to start calmly: if you eat too fast, then you get indigestion."&🌌nbsp;
He said about his new team: 𓄧"They took a risk with me, they waited for my decision until October.”
Marquez has been ti꧙pped by riders from up and down the grid to immedia♑tely fight for the 2024 championship, now he is rid of the Honda that held him back.
"I﷽ want to have fun again,” he insisted. “I won a lot but th♑e last 3-4 years were very difficult for me and I was looking for something different, to have fun on a motorbike again.
“The Gresini team was the only one who waited for me and gave me my time,🌞 ꦜwhen it saw me ready, it chose me.
“It'𝐆s a risky challenge for me but the Gresini family is very beautꦕiful, a team that has a lot of history.
“What if I aim for the World Championship? I'm coming f⛎rom difficult years and I haven't won i🐷n a long time.
“I prefer to create the basꦺe slowly then we'll see where we get.
“But today I can't have a clear objective."
He shone on his Ducati debut at the postseason Va🌊lencia test, a run-out which has whet the appetite for the upcoming season.
"I was only aﷺble to do 50 laps with the new bike but I felt good,” Marquez said.
“I rode cleanly, I wasn't yet in a position to be aggressiv🎐e in Valencia.&nbsꦓp;
“I'm curious, I have a lot of determination to get to the tests 🌟in Malaysia and do a lot of laps.
“I'm like a child with new 𒉰shoes, that's what they say in Spain!”
The Marquez brothers will be teamma🐼tes again for the first time since early-2020, before Marc’s injury issues ended that period early.
“I always wish Alex the best,” Marc said.
“What I always te🦋ll him is that he must think that he is very strong, he is a two-time world champion, and I am sure he will do well this year.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, 🌜to F1.