Marquez has confirmed he will bring an end to h💙is 11-year spell at Honda at the end of 2023, when it is expected that he will join Gresini Ducati on a one-year deal.

The six-time MotoGP champion “promised, before his Japanese bosses, to return in 2025, as long as Honda prove to have taken a step forward in 20♛24 and once again have a competitive motorcycle,” report.

Ma🐠rquez suggested he would come back to Honda “if one of your riders simply finishes in the top five at the end of the next world championship,” the report claims.

His offer 📖“ꦛsurprised the top of HRC” but was then “flatly rejected”.

Honda want to begin ♐their post-Marquez era by trying to improve without using his possible return as an incentive, it is reported.

The offer from Mar🍷quez was a part of “s🌌incere and open” conversations with Honda bosses Hikaru Tsukamoto and Koji Watanabe.

Although Tsukamoto and Watanabe’s stance was described as having “a point of rigidit🤡y” when negotiating with their star rider.

Marquez is likely to beꦚcome a free agent in 2025 (as he wou▨ld’ve done if he honoured the final year of his Honda contract in 2024).

It means he could have the pick of the best bikes in M🌄otoGP after one year on a Ducati.

If Honda battle back to the top of the sport in the year that Marꦯquez is absent, don’t rule out a spectacular reunion.