The Repsol Honda star rider returns this weekend for the Austrian MotoGP hoping to c𝔍omplete a grand prix✤ for the first time in a dreadful season.

Although he is contracted next year to Honda, his team claimed they would not stand in his way if he demanded a move, with KTM most stro𝕴ngly linked.

“I saw many rumours,” Marquez told . 

“It’s normal when a project, or a rཧider, is in a difficult situation that rumours appear.

“But, you know, I wan🤪t to say that I will continue competing in MotoGP. Continue fighting as🅷 I did in the past.

“I am working to find the best for the future.”

KTM, whos🗹e home race is in Austria this weekend, share Red Bull as a powerful sponsor with Marquez.

Their wish to increase the four bikes thatꦺ they currently have on the MotoGP grid has yet to pay off, so any hope of luring Marquez may have💙 to wait until 2025.

At Silverstone, Marquez insisted he would remain at Hondaꦕ in 2024.

“During my career I was loyal to Hond♏a🦩 and Honda were loyal to me,” Marquez said.

“We have had a special relationship since 2013. They gave me the possibility🐲 to jump to MotoGP.

“From that point I thought onl🍰y of Honda, Honda and Honda be𒁏cause we were winning a lot, and had very good years.

“Now, I am trying to work as a rider to give all my information to our engineers, because we are in a 🥂very difficult situation.

“Not only me, also Honda, they need to ch𝔉a♐nge the project to continue winning. Not only with me, but with other riders.

“As a rider I have full commitment🐼 to try to improve this project in 2023.”

Last time out at Silverstone, an incident with Enea Bastianini brought Marಞquez’s race to an early conclusion.

The year, which began injury-free, has been blighted by༺ crashes and broken bones.

“It has been a difficult first part of the season,” 🤪he said. “We dꦑidn’t approach it in the right way, we attacked too much.

“I tried to find resul🌺ts that we’re not ready for.

“In the second part of the seaꦕson I want to find stability without injuries. There were to꧃o many injuries in only four months.

“It’s time to ꦍbe calm and rebuild confidence, and to find a base.

“It has bee🍨n difficult on th🀅e mental side because I started losing confidence on the bike, losing speed in some circuits.

“T✃he t൩arget now is very different - expectations are low.”