Marc Marquez: “I try to avoid” contact with Gresini Ducati

There are only two more rounds, starting this weekend in Qatar, until Marquez tests a Ducati in Valencia, at the end of this month,🌄 ahead of moving to Gresini in 2024.
But until then, he won’t ask Alex Marquez - his brother and future teammate - for a detailed breakdown of his next bike and he won🅷’t communicate with the Gresini staff.
“No, no, no, in fact I have not talked about the Ducati in depth beca🔯use it w꧒ould be disrespectful,” he told .
“I'm still working for Honda and giving 100 percent a𝓀nd if there's something to try, I'll do it.
“Iꦫ try to give the most accurate feedback, I might even have contact w🐼ith my team next year and I try to avoid that.
“Because? Well, because there are three races ahead in which my goal is to finish in the best possible wa🔯y and be as professional as possible. “Then there will be time to talk with my br🌱other, with Ducati, with Gresini, with the new coach, to prepare for the 2024 season.”
Marquez knows that the entire MotoGP world will be gripped by the sight of him tes🍎ting the be🀅st bike on the current grid after the season-finale in Valencia.
But he refused to✤ be drawn into making a bold pꦆrediction about how he will fare.
“First I need to test the bike, then I need to do the whole pre-season and when the pre-season is over I wil🔯l see exactly where we are,” he insisted.
“It's a bit like when last year I we෴nt with the same speech and being in the same team, because during the preseason you see things, you see if a brand comes out, if another comes out, if a rider comes out or if another come🥀s out…
“At the moment it wouldꩵ be a mistake to enter into a clear obje𒅌ctive.
“The main objective is to have fun on t﷽he bike again and that means being competitiꦑve.”

James wa💃s a sports journalist at Sky 🧜Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.