168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez has delivered🥃 an update on his troublesome arm which previously threatened to retire him.

Marquez’s move from Repsol Honda to Gresini Ducati this year has sparked new optimism in the six-time MotoGP champion.

But the lingeringꦅ physical issue in his arm - from a fracture suffered in Jerez four years ago - are a lingering reminder of his limitations.

"As I have always said, and I♌ am not lying, it is an arm with four operations that requires more maintenance than the other,” he told .

“And so you have to take good care of it.

You have to pamper it, but well.

"I have been able to have a normal preseason. I have tested well ✃at home."

Marquez was forced to consider retirement as he went ♍through the fourth arm operation in 2022.

Although he recover🐠ed to resume his esteemed career, a 2023 blighted by a record-high quantity of crashes on his Honda did little to inspire confidence.

Switching to Ducati - last year’s domina🍒nt bike - should help to curtail the physical blows he has become accustomed to taking.

Marquez was unhurt from his first 🅰crash on a Ducati, in the final hour of preseason testing in Qatar when he was seeking the limit of his new machine.

He explained: "I was doing t🐈he long run, I did fall on lap 12, I think, but I had planned to do 20.

"When you plan it like thi🃏s, you feel good physically.

"Bein꧃g realistic, at the moment we are fighting fifth, sixth.

"It's𝄹 very relative because then you get here to the grand prix and the tyre changes on the track, everything changes.

“B🔯ut at the moment if it had been a race, we are - I think we need to see the exa꧟ct papers - fourth, fifth, sixth, in the best of scenarios."

His fellow Ducati ri♔vals remain the riders to beatꦇ when racing begins on March 8 in Qatar.

"There are still three, four riders who luckily are riding in the same factory with," Mar🧔quez said.

"I can learn from them ꦅand I must learn from them how to get the most out of it.

"There are still a few things missing. The important thing is the evaluation 🔯of the preseason🃏 is good.

“Because we have had a solid preseason, withꦅout🔯 getting nervous, respecting the times that were needed to get to know the bike.”

Last season’s title rivals Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin - who have left the GP23 to Marquez and stepped onto the developed GP24 - are expected to resume their place at 🐈the front.