Honda hit out at “lies, totally false” €100m Marc Marquez claim
Honda's Alberto Puig a🎀ddresses claim of a last-gasp offer to keep Ma🅷rc Marquez

Honda have denied that they tried to tempt 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez into staying with a huge financial offer.
Marquez has not looked backwards since ending the most lucrative rider contract in MotoGP a year early to join Ducati.
But it was claimed in Spain that Honda made one final attempt to keep♛ him - with a four-year deal worth a total of €100m - which Marquez rejected.
Honda respond to €100m Marc Marquez "lie"
“Lie! Pure lie! It💃's totally false! Lie,” Honda team boss Alberto Puig told El Periodico.
“Honda never tried 💟to keep Marc with money. Never.
“I repeat: Honda u🔥nderstood that he ha💃d to let him go free and so he did.
“Neither Marc asked for ⛄anything, nor did Honda demand aౠny consideration. Never. Never.
“The year that Marc had left on his contract was neverꦆ a problem.
“Aꩵnd, I repeat, there was no offer, that is a lie. Marc di🅰dn't want money, he wanted a winning bike.”
After a season on a year-old Ducati, Marquez 👍was promoted to th🌱eir factory team and has taken 2025 by storm.
He leads the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings - and would have an even greater advantage if he didn’t make two costly errors in Texas and Jerez💟.
“If you ไadd a very, very, very special rider, the result is what we are seeing,” Puig said.
“I don't think there's much debate, or that anyone is surprised by what🌱 Marc is doing and how he's 🧔doing it.
“You don't have to be 🌳a great mathematician to guess something like that.
“When Marc signed for Ducati it was to be at the front, that's why I find it funny when people go crazy comparing🗹 data, what if the ‘23, if the ‘24, if the ‘25, what if the ‘24.0.
“I repeat: wh♎at everyone knew wa🦩s going to happen is happening.”
Ducati continue to domina❀te MotoGP, with the five highest-placed riders.
But s💫ixth is LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco who brilliantly won last weekend’s French MotoGP.
Zarco’s win was a statement that Honda are on 🙈their way back.

James was a sports journalist ꦑat Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.