Marquez was fourth-fastest at the hugely encouraging postseason test in Val🙈encia, the first time he rode a Ducati.

His smile upon returning to the Gresini box was taken as a symbol of his happiness with his new machine, and as a result the possibility of newfound competitivenes൲s this year.

Fonsi Nieto told that he is certain ℱMarquez will return to form: “One hundred percent sure, one hundred pe🅠rcent sure.

“They asked me in Valencia after testing 'have you been surprised by what Marc Marqu🍌ez has done?’

“No. He did exactly what I expected.

“I'll also tell you something else: Marc gave the one hundrཧed percent he had in that testing session, after everything that has happened and with the accumulated anger.

“And I can tell you that many of the others were looking at the clock and ♌asking for the time, because after a whole championship, getting back on the bike on a Monday, on practically the same bike...

“They were not motivated to the maximum.

“It's not that Marquez is going to arrive now and deva🌜state everyone.

“Is he going to be fighting? Completely.

“The fans stop🐎 you and say: 'Marc is going t🍃o win next year!'

“He👍y, calm down, the others also race and the others 🦩also go fast.

“Pecco has two world championships, and ther꧑e are more riders with world championships.

“Will he be th🐽ere to winꦚ races? Sure. But it's not 'Marquez arrives and wins tomorrow'.”

As well as🌄 adapting to a year-old version of a new bike, Marquez must battle against Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin who will be equip♐ped with GP24s and should fight at the front again.

He must als𓄧o navigate the new world of Ducati and the internal challenges that may be presented♔.

Will that be a problem?

“He is a guy with eight world championships who, obviously, imposes himself on the other riders just because of his reco🉐rd,” said Fonsi Nieto, the nephew of the legendary Angel Nieto who now works at Pramac Ducati.

“And because of how he achieved it. He's not⛦ a guy you like to fight 💞with, because he's a very elusive guy who doesn't give up.

“But I have talked about it in the 🌟box with the team: if we have been fighting for a championship with the best, then we will have to do it also having Marc in the same conditions.

“I think it has to be a motivation, not an ob🍸session.

“In the end, you open a newspaper, they talk about Marc Marquez. Just like whe♉n Valentino Rossi was there.

“Well, that makes the riders tense.

“But if you want to be a champཧion, you have to fight with the best.”

Nieto will be charged with preparing Pramac’s Jorge Martin (and his new teamm🌠ate Franco Morbid𓄧elli) to defeat Marquez and co.