Repsol Honda team manager Puig is under pressure after a horrible season - in Germany he oversaw the first MotoGP race in 40 years where Honda scored zero points, he watched star man Marquez undergo a career-threatening surgery then somehow still out-score his teammates in the end-of-year 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings.

Marquez, who has enjoyed his heyday alongside Puig as well as his darkest ꦚmoments when his racing future was at stake💧, said with two races left in 2022: “The people can speak bull**** about Alberto, but for me he is crucial.

“He is crucial because he is honest. When a person 𓂃is honest and speaks straight to you, normally this person doesn’t ওhave a lot of friends.

“Alberto is hone💛st. Inside the team, a person like this is most important.

“He doesn’t car𒅌e if you are an eight-time world champion - he doesn’t care if you are an engineer from NASA! He doesn’t care!

“If he says or believes ‘this is not the direction’, he will say itℱ to you.🌠 He is a person who helps a lot.

“I have heard many comments about Alberto but I am very✱ happy with him.”

Puig said: “I know M෴arc very well, he is our rider, he is my friend. I fully understand what he is going through.

“I am connected to his programme.

“When you en༒ter this type of position in a racing team you must understand that you will have good and bad moments.

“If you pretend it wi🎃ll be paradise, it means yo🥀u don’t understand this racing field.

“We have hꦚad very good years, now we are suffering 🐟really badly.

“How do I handle it? I just handle it.”

Marquez was speaking ahead of the Malaysian MotoGP, by which time he had recovered from his latest major surgery to score a pole position in Japan and a podium finish in Austra🎃lia. An aw🌳ful year for Honda finally had some hope for the future.

He ended the season in 13th despite missing six rounds due to injury - somehow, still above fellow Honda riders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pol Espargaro and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Takaaki Nakagami.

That optimism wꦛas partially wiped out when Marquez criticised Repsol 🅷Honda’s 2023 prototype bike at the postseason Valencia test.

His brother Alex will be in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 MotoGP rider line-up for Gresini Ducati, a move which may worry Honda if it paves the way🅠 for their𒈔 star man to eventually follow.