The Spaniard’s future home, follow🍌ing Suzuki’s MotoGP withdraw,🧜 was all but confirmed when current LCR rider Alex Marquez signed at Gresini Ducati for 2023.

“We are almost done, everybody can imag🐲ine wh🍬ere I will go next year with the exit of Alex Marquez [from LCR] going to Gresini,” Rins admitted.

“Still, it is not official because I did not sign꧒, the last signature, but we are quite close so maybe in the next days it will be [done].”

The triple MotoGP race winner explained earlier in the Assen we🌃eke🧸nd that his priority was to have a 2023-spec bike next season.

Of the opportunities a𝓡vailable to him, a 2023 machine was something only LCR could offer, with Gresini running GP22s and the new RNF Aprilia squad also set to use year-old bikes.

“In the end I was managing the Ducati option - the🐟 Gresini option - or the LCR option,” Rins revealed. “We were talking with Ducati and they did not give me an official [2023] bike.

“I was fighting for an official bike and Honda was able to give me that possibility. It’s a nice project bec🧸ause right now, the bike is not going so good in terms of results, so let’s see if we can manage to make a good bike.

“I like a challenge because I think that we did a really good job [developi🦩ng the bike] at Suzuki and so we can do ඣsomething similar for Lucio [Cecchinello],” Rins added.

HRC is expected to have both Suzuki riders in their line-up next season, with Rins’ team-mate Joan Mꦰir set to join Repsol Honda alongside Marc Marquez.

Current LCR rider Ta🐓kaaki Nakagami and Moto2's Ai Ogura head the rumoured list of candidates for the second satellite seat, next to Rins.

Rins: ‘Something strange happened’

Rins completed his first race since the wrist fracture in Bar𒁃celona in tenth place at Assen on Sunday, his hopes of a stronger result thwarted by a bad start.

“I don’t know if I was missing the feeling for the starts, after missing the last race, but something strange happened that we are not used to,” he said. “I was starting P9 but then I ♔crossed the finished line [to en🍸d lap 1] in P16.

“So I lost a lot of time and also it was a little difficult to warm the rear tyre. When Aleix overtook﷽ me, I was trying to follow him, but not enou🅠gh.

“I was not feeling super confident with the bike, 💧so in the end I arrived to Oliveira and Mir, and I stayed there. Because I had no power in my right hand. Maybe from compensating too much (for the injured left wrist].

“It is what it is. We finished the r🥂ace, taking points for the first time since Portimao. Let’s understand this race and be stronger for Silverstone.”

Mir finished less than half-a-second ahead of Rins in eighth and is now two points ahead of his team-mate for seventh place in the world championship standiꦐngs.