After 11 years collectively and 6 world titles, Marquez and Honda will part ways on the finish of the present marketing campaign after each events mutually agreed to take action.
This follows an immensely tough season for Marquez on the RC213V, which has yielded only one grand prix podium in 15 rounds thus far.
He’ll move to the Gresini Ducati squad in 2024, which was introduced on Thursday on the Indonesian Grand Prix, to journey a year-old Desmosedici.
Marquez has made no secret of the difficulties he confronted in coming to this choice, significantly because it meant abandoning his long-standing Honda crew.
However talking on Thursday in Indonesia, Marquez didn’t rule out the opportunity of reuniting with Honda sooner or later when he was requested about who ought to exchange him.
“I can’t go there,” he stated. I can’t go on that time.
“In fact, I’ve some good names there on the desk. However it’s extra about rumours, and I already perceive with my rumours that with 100 rumours, one is true.
“Which one, you don’t know.
“I want the very best for Honda, and for me it’s not a ‘bye-bye’. It’s a ‘so long’. I want to cross our futures once more within the subsequent years.”
Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Staff
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RNF Aprilia rider Miguel Oliveira is top of Honda’s list to replace Marquez, with the Portuguese rider confirming an strategy was made however that “nothing concrete” had been proposed.
Opening up extra on the feelings he has gone by way of in making his newest profession choice, Marquez stated: “In fact, it has been a brilliant tough choice.
“The hardest choice in my profession, as a result of to interrupt an 11-year relationship with Honda, a really profitable relationship.
“Final week was onerous on the emotional facet, as a result of all my workers, all my household is there inside that field, all of the sponsors.
“However typically it’s essential to exit of your consolation zone and my consolation zone was Honda.
“However it’s true it’s a very long time, particularly the final 4 years, that I’m not having fun with and I did a change to get pleasure from once more on the race observe, as a result of if not there’s no which means to proceed racing and my profession.
“What I need is increasingly years in my profession.
“The primary goal is to get pleasure from and for that motive I selected the Gresini crew, as a result of it’s an enormous household, has the very best bike now on the grid, and my brother is there.
“Will probably be an enormous problem for me, massive problem for the Gresini crew, however they did good outcomes already with my brother, with Enea Bastianini previously.
“However it’s what I say, it will likely be an enormous change in all of the facet and what I’m searching for is to get pleasure from it.”