On Thursday, Gresini announced it had signed the eight-time world champion for 2024, every week on from Honda agreeing mutually to half methods with him on the finish of the season.
Marquez will experience a year-old Ducati subsequent season, taking up the machine that’s at present main the championship in Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin’s fingers.
Quartararo, who has had a equally tough 2023 to Marquez, believes the Spaniard will trigger a significant headache for the sphere when he jumps on the Ducati.
“He’s going to make our life actually tough, for everybody,” Quartararo mentioned on Thursday forward of the Indonesian Grand Prix.
“Marc is the reference of the final 10 years and he can be on a very aggressive bike. So, yeah, I feel he’ll make our lives tremendous tough subsequent 12 months.”
Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales added: “I see yet another Ducati who is powerful. Yet another!
“It’s at all times tough, nothing is straightforward on this world. We’ll see. I feel inside Ducati, it will likely be tough. However I see each rider who goes there’s super-fast. Shit.”
Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Workforce
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Alex Rins introduced earlier within the 12 months that he can be breaking a two-year contract with Honda to depart on the finish of 2023, signing to modify to Yamaha.
The LCR rider admits he was “shocked” by Marquez’s determination however “hopes” that he can win once more on the Ducati.
“I believed everyone was shocked,” Rins started.
“I’m shocked as a result of after the Misano GP, he made a variety of jokes on social media.
“So, because of this, I believed he was staying and enjoying with us. However after Motegi, after the rostrum, he introduced he was going away from Honda with nonetheless one 12 months on the contract.
“I used to be fairly impressed, but when he takes this determination, it’s for one thing.
“We now have to respect this determination and I hope that Marc goes to win once more. He’s a really quick rider and if he made this determination, it’s as a result of he thinks he can’t get this profitable feeling with Honda.”
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Workforce
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Reigning world champion Bagnaia has no doubts that Marquez can be aggressive on the Ducati subsequent 12 months, and feels it will likely be “good for our sport”.
“I feel it’s good for us, good for the game,” Bagnaia said.
“For certain Marc will discover a good base – the most effective base – for certain on our bike.
“He’ll really feel comfy and he won’t take an excessive amount of time to be higher and quicker than the state of affairs he’s in proper now.
“I feel it will likely be good to share that with him, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see what he can do.
“I feel it would even be a great competitors for him. We’re eight riders, very aggressive riders. Will probably be attention-grabbing.”