Jorge Lorenzo says Marc Marquez “must choose between titles or money” and hints Honda cannot battle Ducati
Marquez is contracted to Repsol Honda for two more seasons - he turns 30 before the new season begins, is recovering from his most serious surger🧔y yet and must battle his own bike as well as younger, hungry rivals.
"Marc wants to continue winning the world 𓃲championships and now with Honda he cannot,” three-time champion Lorenzo told DAZN.
“There will come a time when he will have to choose betw𒉰een winning the title or m♍aking money, although I don't think Honda will continue to offer him the same contract."
Lorenzo's comments are a hint that another team might offer Marquez a b✨ike t🎃hat is more competitive, but a contract which is not as lucrative as Honda's.
Marquez i꧋s widely considered the highest-paid rider 𓂃on the grid but his age and the increasing physical toll of his terrible injuries mean his days at the top are numbered.
A bright conclusion to 2022 - a pole position and a podium finis🐼h when it was assumed he wasn’t fully fit - plus his enduring brilliance means that he remains a threat to add to his six premier class championships, even on sub-par machinery, but he can't go on forever.
His brother 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez has exited Honda for Gresini Racing, a move made m꧂ore interesting because if it greases the wheels🅘 for Marc to join Ducati.
Lorenzo said Ducati will dominate the next few years of MotoGP: 🅷"Red, especially with Gigi Dall'Igna."
Alex Criville said to DAZN that the🍒 upcoming Marquez documentary makes his opinion clear: "Marc sent a message to Honda saying: 'Either with you or without you'".
In the past year, Marquez and his brother split from l♕ong-time manager Emilio Alzamora, who had worked with Marc since he was 12-years-old and overseen his prime years.
While Marc sat out six races to undergo a career-threatening opꦫeration, and admitted his doubts that he could ever return, the Honda team were enduring a nightmare year without thei🌌r star man.
Marc has launched a defenc𝓀e of Alberto Puig, Honda’s team boss, but it is clear that a lot has changed for the six-time MotoGP💛 champion in the past 12 months.
Even more could change in the upcoming year…
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports f🍌or a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
