Alex Marquez admits: Marc Marquez told me 'If I don’t enjoy it, I will retire’

Alex Marquez was told by Marc Marquez that he’ll retire if he doesn’t enjoy his first year at Gresini Ducati.
Marc Marquez, Tissot Sprint race, MotoGP, Indonesian MotoGP, 14 October
Marc Marquez, Tissot Sprint race, MotoGP, Indonesian MotoGP, 14 October

The Marquez brothers will be reunited at the Ducati satellite team in 2024, after Marc confirmed his intention to quit Honꦕda.

The stakes for Marc have now risen after hi🌟s brother’s revelation about their private conversation.

Asked if Marc can be tempted to stay longer than his init𒅌ial one-year deal, Alex replied to TNT Sports: “We’ll see. The sense to have just one year is 𒁏to see if he enjoys this world again. 

“He is really clever to me. He said:🌼 ‘If I don’t enjoy it, I will retire’. It’s like this. It’s a possibility. 

“He wants to see if he can enjoy it again. If ꦐhe 𒀰can be fast again after his injury. 

“I have no doubt b𒉰ut he has his doubts. He has reasons to have [doubts] because I had them when I was on theꩵ Honda bike last year. 

“I’m sure in Valencia he will enjoy it again - what’s inꦿ his head will disappear really fastꦕ.”

Alex, who quit LCR Honda to join Gresini Ducati a year ago, was asked if he influenced 𒆙his brother’s decision: “No. Like✃ he said, he was changing his mind, his idea, every day. 

“I said one day: ‘You are changing a lot, I will give my opinion as a brother, not as a Gresini Ducati ri🐬der’. 

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“He needs to change, to recover the feeling, the passion. I saw 💖him on the Motegi podium, not happy as Marc normally is. 

“He will go to a small team - that doesn’t mean we’re not professional - but it’s a small family, always together. This ca✱n help Marc to enjoy it again on the bike and on the track.”

So, what can Marc Marquez expect fr🐼om a year-old Ducati?

“A re𝔍ꦍally good engine, for sure, is what he can expect,” Alex said. 

“A bike that can give you a lot o🐭f feeling. He rode the same bike for 11 years so he will ha♔ve to change a lot of things. 

“I changed, and I was just three years with [the Honda], ꧅so imagine 11. He is fast adapting to things. He won’t have any problems and he will be fast.”

Alex insisted that his brother will now have the🐼 machinery to prove that he is Moto☂GP’s greatest rider.

🐈“Yes, it loo🍎ks like. For some years he didn’t show it because he was in a difficult situation. But next year he will have the opportunity to show it again.”

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