Marquez is entering his 10th MotoGP season and has always been a Honda rider, but the team end𒈔ured a disastrous 2022 and their competitiveness this season is yet to be proven.

Marquez is contracted for two more 🎀seasons but, now aged 30 and with a history of injuries behind him, his window to win a seventh premier class championship is closing and he might look elsewhere if Honda can’t provide him with a winning bike.

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Team manager Puig told about suggestions Marquez could move to Ducati: "It's just rumo❀urs, Marc has been a Honda rider all his life and he is very grateful to Honda. 

“But we are perfectly aware 🍬that if we don't give him a winning bike, we could lose him. 

“The results of this season could condition Marc's decisions ✨in the immediate future.

“I think Marc kn🐼𝓀ows Honda very well and knows we won't stop until they give him the bike he wants and deserves. 

“I don'🌌t know when tℱhat will happen and whether, when it happens, we will be in time or not to retain Marc. Honda's dream is that he will never leave."

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The problems Marquez must overcome this season, ahead of the season-opening 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Portuguese MotoGP this weekend, are not restricted to his mac♕hinery🌜.

He is expect🧸ed to be fully fit for the first time in three years after a series of major operations, but keeping his physical condition in check is something that Marquez must focus on.

Asked if Marquez must adapt his risky riding style, Puig ꩵsaid: "Marc fell even when he had the best bike, because he only knows how to race and be the best lookin🤪g for the limit. 

“It is obvious that the body has memory and when you suffer w𝕴hat Marc suffered, you always carry it with you,.

"It doesn't mean it prevents him from being as fast as before, it doesn't mean he's going to be slower, more cautious, less aggressive, it just means, and ꦕhe's explained it a thousand times in the last few months, that he's a different Marc than before the injury.

"He is 30 years old and knows🌼 very well, better than anyone, what to do on the track, when to risk and when not.”

The problem that are outside of Marquez’s control is Honda🥂’s competitiveness. Last season he 𒉰missed six races yet was still the highest-placed Honda rider in the MotoGP rankings.

He watched and saw the Japanese manufacturer fail to score a🐬 single point in a MotoGP race for the first time in 40 years in Germany.

Meanwhile, Ducati won their first title since 2007 and are set to enter 2023 wi𓂃th the best bike on the grid again.

“Ducati 🐭and the other two European manufacturers, Aprilia and KTM, have done a better job than ours, they have managed to find the tricks, the secrets, the shortcuts to exploit the technical regulations and get a more competitive bike than ours," 𓃲Puig said. 

"European manufacture🧸✃rs have been much more reactive, more creative and more aggressive when it comes to designing their bikes. 

“When their rivals triumph, y♛ou have to take your hat off to them and congratulate them."