The Gresini Ducati rider has not �💜�looked back since joining the Italian manufacturer, so much so that his results helped convince Marc Marquez to leave Honda behind.

🔜Marquez, who joined MotoGP as the Moto2 world champion in 2020, began his premier class career alongside his brother at the factory Repsol team. 

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But what was supposed to be a very successful season together turned into a night𒐪mare for Marc, as his crash at the season-opener in Jerez was the start of many injury setbacks.

For Alex, not having Marc alongside him ‘complicated’ matters, saying ꦚthis to DAZN: “When he got injured it was complicated, because I imagined that by being with my brother in the garage I could learn and make giant𝄹 strides. 

“Especially when I already knew that the following year I would be in LCR and n꧅ot in Repsol. Itꦇ was all uphill there. A year as a rookie that I was supposed to enjoy collapsed on me.”

Alex Marquez was th🦄en replaced by Pol Espargaro who didn’t fare much better as he stru🅠ggled throughout his two seasons as a factory rider.

Not bec🎶ause of his relegation to the LCR team, but Alex felt let down by the Japaneཧse brand as he believes they put him in the rear-view mirror.

Marquez 🅷said: “In 2021 they p꧒ut me in the background a bit and this affected me a lot, it made me so angry. 

“All the engineers' attention had shifted to Pol, it was something that I didn't understand well and that was difficult to accept. History could have been ෴different, but it cannot be changed.”