Jorge Lorenzo tells Marc Marquez: “Wait a year, then go to KTM or Ducati”

Marquez is contracted to Honda until the end of 2024 on the bigg𓆏est-money deal in the sport but his hopes of a seventh premier class championship evaporated in the early weeks of this year, and already look bleak for next year.
But Lorenzo, who endꦯed his own career as Marquez’s Repsol Honda teammate, advises him to respect his contract before searching for a new home.
"If Marc, in quotes, leave🌌s H൲onda lying around, it would look very bad,” three-time MotoGP champion Lorenzo told .
“It would look fatal. We must also remember that in the Jerez 2020🌺 race, he passed the riders as if they were from Moto2. And the bike wasn't doing very well eit🌺her.
"I believe that you have toꦯ be tough and mature, and I would like Marquez to [see out] his contract with them.
“It is not the same as F1, but, for example, Fernando Alonso is 42 years old, Marquez i💧s 30.
🍬"Yes, it is true that Marc has ꦰmany more injuries than Fernando, motorcycles are more physical and dangerous than cars.
"But wait on𒈔e more year, finish well with Honda, and then at 31 you go to KTM ♎to test.
“Or wi🌱th Du🔥cati, two more years to win your ninth and tenth title.”

KTM, who share Red Bull as an influential sponsor with Marquez, 𒀰are regularly linked as his potential escape routꦫe from Honda.
They have been candid wi🧜th their hope to ✅run more than four bikes by 2025.
Marquez said about KTM at the British MotoGP last weekend: "I didn’t talk to them. If my manager talked to tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhem? I don’t have this information.”
Lorenzo reacted to that: “Marc and KTM will have had conversation💦s.
“I am sure of that, I don't know if they will have been satisfactory o🥀r not☂.”
But Lorenzo reiterated his 2024 hope: “I believe that Marc would have to stay at Honda. For various reasons.&nb♕sp;
“I believe that Honda has had a Marc who, due to that 🗹injury in Jerez 2020, has [mi⭕ssed] half of all the races to date.
“And they haven’t cut him a penny [of h🎶is salary]. And they could hav🍸e done it.
"Honda has behaved very well. And Honda's intention is not to be among the last. Honda is trying. It’s ano🍷ther thing if they sucꦬceed...
"Surely he has the wo⛎rst bike ever, but they are trying.
“Out of loyalty he woul𝓡d have to stay and now🌌 Marc would have to be supporting Honda.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ever🌞ything from American sports, to football, to F1.