The Repsol Honda rider hasn’t added to his six premier class titles in the past three seasons, as his injurie♒s ⛦have racked up forcing him to question if he could ever return.

But despite a fourth major surgery Marquez ended a disastrous season for Honda by claiming a pole position ♛and a podium finish to take him into 2023 with some optimism.

"I would like to fight for the title,” he told Teledep𝐆orte.es. 

“It's a new challeng💫🌱e, because until 2020 my career had been idyllic, a bed of roses. 

“Now I have lived the other 🍬side of the c💮oin, injuries, etc. It's not easy, because the injury has been hard. 

“I am obliged to prepare myself as best I know, to reach the maximum to go to ✅war.&nbs♓p;

“We have a lot of work to do, the tests in Valencia did not go as we ex𝓡pected. Honda is the only brand that can react to such a situation.”

Marquez’s end-of-year highs were dampened at the 🅷postseason test when he emerged from riding his 2023 🎃prototype with criticism.

Jorge Lorenzo has﷽ warned him: "Marc wants to continue winning the world championships and now with Honda he cannot.”

Marquez has launched a defen🧸ce of Alberto Puig, the Honda tea𝓡m manager who oversaw the terrible 2022 season.

“He is cruﷺcial because he is honest,” Marquez said about Puig. “When a person is honest and speaks straight to you, normally this person doesn’t have a lot of friends.

“Alberto🌜 is honest. Inside the team, a person like this is most i🍒mportant.”