Marc has followed his younger brother to 🦩ꦯGresini Ducati, where he will begin a new adventure in 2024.

But the Honda-to-Ducati switch was initially made by Alex whose fortunes have been reinvigorated, and who might have b🙈een spilling secrets to Marc for the past few months.

"The💧 fact that Honda let Alex escape has helped a lotཧ in Marc's decision to leave Honda this year,” Lorenzo told . 

“If he hadn't had the reference at home from Alex who could tell him how the Ducati is go🦋i💝ng...

"Surely he told him that it's amazing. 

“‘This goes well in all the circuits and conditions, it goes♌ well up front, it turns, it pulls, you have confidence in front…’ 

“If Honda had retained Alex Marquez, surely Marc would ha🅘ve had a harder time making the decision. I have n🐠o doubt.”

Lorenzo spent the final year of a MotoGP career which y♌ieldedꦯ three championships alongside Marc as his Repsol Honda teammate.

He also spent two drab years on a Ducati before the Desmosedici’s dominance began. It was a prime Marquez who delayed Ducati’s takeover and next year he will profit from their developmenꦕt.

Lorenzo backed Marc to be fast i💃mmediately: "Without a doubt. From day on♌e. 

“I don't know if he will be first, second or third, but he will go fast from♈ day one. I have no doubt."

Lorenzo: Marquez wary of his 2025 value as a free agent

Lorenzo said about Honda: "First of all, they have allowed it. Honda, in that sense, has been quite permissive.&nꩲbsp;

"I don't know the agreement they have reached. I don't know if there has been money involved in resolving the agreement or not. I thin🐼k not.

"They have allowed him to do this. Honda has been very good to Marc to all𓃲ow him something that they c💛ould have said no to.

"Marc has been able to do it and has decide𝔉d for him. He has prioritised results, happiness and competitiveness over thn money, comfort, loyalty💦 to Honda."

Marquez will pen👍 a one-year deal then will become a f♍ree agent ahead of the 2025 season, when most of the riders’ contracts expire, meaning every manufacturer will have free bikes to offer around.

Lorenzo insists Marquez has one eye on 2025: “He has looked for it and prefers to take a position of much more power, start winning races again and have much 🍸more power to decide where to go in 2025, than to have another bad year at Honda without results, without victories. 

“Your value, despite being Marc Marquez, 𒊎goes down.

"You know how this sport goe🌺s. You are worth your last race, your last ye🐼ar. 

“And, if your last ye🌱ar has been bad, your value as a ri🐟der declines a lot. Marc wanted to avoid that."