Although 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez has only won three racꦰes since 2019 due to arm and eye injuries, Alex has no doubt the #93 remains “the bes🤪t on the grid” and that his past record speaks for itself.

Following the retirement of Jorge Lorenzo (end of 2019) and Valentino Rossi (end of 2021), Marquez iꦍs the only current premier-class rider with more than one MotoGP title to his credit.

The Repsol Honda star claimed the world championship six times between 2013 and 2019, with the title then rotating between Joan Mir (Suzuki), Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) and the newly𝓰 crowned Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati).

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“When you start a season you are equal with ♋everybody. It doesn't matter the name, doesn't matter the bike, everybody starts from zero,” said Alex, shortly after joining team-mate Fabio di Giannantoniꩵo in unveiling Gresini's 2023 MotoGP colours.

“It's tru🔯e that Ducati is coming from a really good year, Honda [from] a𒁏 struggling year. They had a lot of problems last year and I suffered with those problems!

“But 𒐪as I said, we start the new season with everybody equal.

“Marc as a rider, we know that he's the best on the grid. It’s like this and he's the guy with more world championships in the 🉐pocket. So for sure, I think he will be the favourite this year.

“I see him training a lot. I'm not feeling better or worse than him [now I have a Ducati]… I’m just trying to iﷺmprove and🍎 learn some things from him, because he's my brother."

Alex Marquez, 26, took Honda’s o꧅nly MotoGP ꦫpodiums as a rookie at the factory team in 2020, following Marc’s arm injury, but made only two top-six appearances during the next two years at LCR.

Despite leaving Honda for Ducati this season, Alex has continued to train c๊losely with his brother.

“Training has been like every year,” he said. “For sure I tried personally to improve some things that I had in mind, also after I tried the [Ducati] in Valencia. I know which area🌺 I need to work a little bit on but the work and the ✃atmosphere training with my brother is always the same.

“We are professionals. We know that we need to separate the things on track, but a🐎lso I have the bes✅t reference for me to train. That is Marc. He’s really fast always; on motocross, on flat track, on karting.

“So we always enjoy that training and this will not change. We're professional and the info on MotoGP we will not share for su🌱re, but outside we are brothers and we share our training like we have all our life.”

‘A really great sign’

The former Moto3 and Moto2 world champion takes over the Gresini seat of last year’s four-time MotoGP race 🦹winner Enea Bastianini, who finished thir𒉰d overall in the world championship.

Ma♓rquez made🍸 his debut on the GP22 at last November’s Valencia test when, although only 15th fastest, he was just 0.680s from the top and had almost instantly matched his lap times from the race weekend with Honda.

“[Ducati and Honda are] very different bikes and what I didn't expect was to be already, 🧔in the first run, in the same lap times like Honda or even faster with a medium rear time,” Marquez said.

“I was not feeling really good on the bike because the pos൩ition and🏅 all this was really different compared to the Honda. So I was not riding with a lot of confidence, but the lap times were coming from the first run and this is a really great sign for me.

“When yꩲou are not feeling good, but the lap times are coming is something great.

“I was feeling really easy with the engine, the power delivery and all this. Still I rode for another ma♒nufacturer for three years and I have some things on my riding style that I will need to change, but this is normal.

“I will need t🌌o learn different things compared with riders that have been on the bike for some years and also just copy some things [from them]. So it will be a really interest🧜ing pre-season for me to try to adapt and be ready for the first race in Portimao.”

Marquez and di Giannant𒀰onio will be back on their Desmosedici GP22s when pre-season testing kicks off🗹 at Sepang in Malaysia next month.