Marquez’s addition to the Ducati clan, riding a year-old Desmosedici for Gresini Racing, is a bombshell headline for MotoGP in 2024.

How the eight-time world champion will be received, both on and off the track, by his fellow Duc𒁏ati riders is a huge point of intrigue.

Martin told that riding a GP23 will initially aid the new recruit: “Marquez may have an advantage at the beginning of the se🔴ason over us because he will have a bike a𒁏lready prepared. 

“For the♍ official [bikes], the tests are much more complicated because there are many things to test. 

“But I am going to push this year to have my time and, when I have everything cleꦰar, I will start testing.

“For me it is not a problem that Mar⛄quez comes to Ducati. 

“He is a bไig threat, because he is one of the best in histor♍y, but it is a motivation for me.

“If I manage to🍨 beat him, then I will establish myself as one of the 🔜best too.”

M🥂arquez was left languishing behind the army of Ducatis last season on his misfiring Honda.

The GP23 that he will ride this year is the bike that Martin and Francesco Bagnaia rode to fi⛎ght for the champi♓onship.

Pramac’s Ma﷽rtin missed out on the title (and ꦆa move to the factory squad as a result).

Martin recalled his own arrival as a Spaniard into the Italian manufacturer: “When I signed for Duc❀ati, Lor🔯enzo and Dovizioso were there, but Marquez still won. 

“I had the option of Honda, KTM,ജ Yamaha with Petronas and Ducati. 

“I decided on Ducati because I understood it for the future, althoug🥃🔥h at that time the rookies were still suffering. 

“Now it's dဣifferent, even rookies can do great things, although I won a race in my first year.” 

Marquez and Martin had their🐼 notable flashpoi✃nts last year.

The very first grand prix in Portimao ended for both rid🌳ers♉ when Marquez clattered Martin.

“I started well ౠand was going fast in Portimao, but there we had the touch with Marc,” Martin refl🌌ected.

“At the beg🐠inn♏ing of the year I left a lot of points there.”

At the time, he complained: “It’s not the first time he has destroyed my race. Maybe in the future he can manage to av♎oid me. Or Race Direction can do something.

“I haওve never destroyed a race for him🧜, or injured him.”

The final rac𒉰e of the year then ended with another collision between them, Martin’s titl𝓀e dream ending in the process.

“I saw the ga♓p with Marc, I got in, he listened to me and released the brakes,” Martin recalled. 

“Maybe if I had been more aggressive we wouldn't have fallen, at most we would have 🌼gone wide or a touch, but when I picked up the bike, I hit it and we fell.”

The rivalry will renew this year with Marquez and Martin 🔜both eyeing the championship.