Marquez is entering his 10th MotoGP season and has always been a Honda rider, but the team e🌠ndured a di༺sastrous 2022 and their competitiveness this season is yet to be proven.

Marquez is contracted for two more seasons but, now aged 30 and with a history of injuries behind him, 💮his window to win a seventh premier class championship is closing and he might look elsewhere if Honda can’t provide him with a winni𝓡ng bike.

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Team manager Puig told abou𝔉t suggestions Marꩲquez could move to Ducati: "It's just rumours, Marc has been a Honda rider all his life and he is very grateful to Honda. 

“But we are perfectly aware that if we don't give him a wi🅷nning bike, we could lose him. 

“The results of this season could condition Marc's deci🅺sions in the immediate future.

“I think Ma🔯rc knows Honda very well and knows we won't stop until they give him the bike he wants and deserves. 

“I don't know when that will happen and whether, when it happens, we will be in time or not to retain Marc. Honda's dream is that ♔he wil𒀰l never leave."

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The problems Marquez must overcome this season, ahead of the season-opening 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Portuguese MotoGP this🃏 weekend, are not restricted to his machinery.

He is expected to be fully fit for the first time in three years after a𒈔 series of major operations, but keeping his physical condition in check is something that Marquez must focu🐼s on.

Asked if Marquez🍨 must adapt his risky riding style, Puig said: "Marc fell even when he had the best bike, because he only knows how to race and be the best looking for the limit. 

“It is obvious that the body has memory and when you suffer what Marc suffered, you always carry it wit🌞h you,.

"It doesn't mean it prevents him from being as fast as before, it does💜n't mean he's going to be slower, more cautious, less aggressive, it just m🦩eans, and he's explained it a thousand times in the last few months, that he's a different Marc than before the injury.

"He is 30 years old and knows very we🍷ll, better than anyone, what to do on the 💝track, when to risk and when not.”

The pro🦄blem that are outside of Marquez’s control is Honda’s competitiven𒁃ess. Last season he missed six races yet was still the highest-placed Honda rider in the MotoGP rankings.

He watched and saw the Japanese manuf🦩actu🥂rer fail to score a single point in a MotoGP race for the first time in 40 years in Germany.

Meanwhile, Ducati won their first title since 2007 and are set to enter𝐆 2023 with the best bike on the grid again.

“Ducati and the other two European manufacturers, Aprilia and KTM, have done a better job than ours, they have managed to find the tricks, the secr꧋ets, the shortcuts to exploit the technical regulations and get a more com🔯petitive bike than ours," Puig said. 

"European manufacturers have been much more reactive, mor🍌e creative and more aggressive when it comes to designing their bikes. 

“When their rivals t💞riumph, you have to take your hat off to them and congratulate them."