After the Japanese MotoGP, Marquez was fielding questions from journalis🍷ts about whether he will quit or stay at🃏 Honda in 2024.

But 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia💞, sat next to him in the same press conference, chimed in.

He joked: “Bye, bye Honda!”

Marquez awkwardly smiled back: “No, why?”

Marquez laughed out loud in response to Bag☂naia’s comment.

“The kiss of Val🐻entino,” Bagnaia smiled in reference to a famous moment from MotoGP history.

Valentino Rossi wore a t-shirt saying “bye, bye baby” at the season-ending gran♌d prix before quitting Yamaha to join Ducati, and was kissed on his helmet.

Bagnaia was cheekily inferring that Marquez will make a similarly high-profile decision to leave Honda and link up with Gresini Dꦡucati, as expected.

“It was a very romantic podium,” Marquez🃏 earlier smiled about his third-placed finish in Japan.

Words that could clearly be understood as a hint that he won’t repres๊ent Honda at ꦿtheir home race ever again.

Marquez h๊as been coy about 🍬his future but Ducati boss Gigi Dall’Igna dropped the biggest hint yet, after the Japanese MotoGP, that the star rider is coming to Gresini.

Bagnaia, who will b🎉e his stablemate next season, is clearly enjoying the saga 𒐪too.

But will🔥 Marquez have better luck at Ducati than his old enemy Rossi did, when he made his own ill-fated move?