The Gresini Racing rider remembers his first days in his new team, at the start of the season, and being left ♓wide-eyed at the level of observation from the man credited with turning Ducati from under🍸achievers into champions.

"After each training session, Gigi Dall'Igna and his team go through each Ducati rider,” Marquez is quoted by .&n൲bsp;

“There are always three. He takes it all in.

"That's what surprised𝐆 me the most when I arrived, realꦫly. 

“They told me that and, in the Valencia test, well, in the bo🙈x, it happened three times during the day. 

“Aꦬnd that's something tha💝t shocked me, it gave me ideas and helped.”

Marquez 𓂃had spent three premier class seasons at Honda, alongside hi♈s brother Marc Marquez, before a high-profile switch.

His move to Ducati has rejuvenated him, leaꦅding to a pole position and a podium in Argentina.

It has allowed ✃him to dream of the ultimate honour.

"I have always said th♋at if I am a MotoGP champion I will go home,” Marquez said. 

“I would have done everything. However, I have𓃲 already done much more than I imagined.

"In the end, when you're little, you never imagine winnin༺g two championships, winning races, podiums, you can't imagine.

"So, what I have achieved and it is already much 🐻more than the expectations I had when🅺 I was little, of my dreams.”

The biggest change for Marquez this season is🀅 to ride a machine which is the envy of the grid, rather than a Honda which has left three of its four riders with broken bones.

"The Ducati has quite a few good thingღs, I can't highlight just one,” he sa🐲id. 

“The entire package they have, 𝓀how they control🐟 it, how they work, what the bike gives you, everything in general is well.

"I would tell you that they don't have any weak poi☂nt, that is to say, they have a weaker point, but the thing is that the othe💎rs are very good.

“Maybe in the turn we suffer a bit more, b🐭ut the other is very good, both the stop, how to accelerate, stability…

"That'ꦕs where you have to know where to get the most out of the situation. ꦓ;

ℱ“I t𓆏hink it's not just the engine or just electronics.

"It's how you co🌠mbine the power that you have in the engine with the electronics and how you transmit it to the rear wheel.”