Whileꦡ Marc is moving across to Ducati after 11 seasons at Honda, Alex will be starting his second year on a Desmosedici after celebrating two Sprint wins, two GP podiums an🐓d a pole in 2023.

“The first race is Qatar, where I think Alex has more chance tha🅠n me,” insisted Marc, a 59 time premer-class winner for Repsol Honda between 2013-2021. “I won only two times. I’m not in the mindset to think about victory now but we’ll see. If it’s a win for Gresini we will be happy.”

“If I win Qatar? That sounds good to me!” smiled Alex, who finished a best yet ninth overall in last year’s MotoGP st💎andings but hasn’t won a grand prix since his 2019 Moto2 worไld championship season.

“He doesn’tꦺ have to be hasty, it will com꧋e. You have to be realistic,” warned Marc.

“I’ve always said, yo▨u can’t finish the championship in tenth and start the next one thinking you will win it. It doesn’t happen.

“If you are tenth you have to st𝄹art thinking you can get top 7 or top 5. Little by little, you scale it up. A sporting person can’t make such a big change from one year to another. It’s continuous progress.

“The most impor🍸tant thing for Alex is, don’t put high expectations because I’m in the box. He needs to be realistic all the time.”

Alex acknowledged that his brother’s past success and huge f🗹anbase will increase pressure on the whole team.

“T𓄧he dark side [of Marᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚc’s arrival] is the expectations, of the people and team. We were really calm last year.”

Gresini tasted victory&nb🗹sp;in the last (2021) Qatar season opener, with former rider Enea🐈 Bastianini.