Marc Marquez: "My mental health would be finished" if I stayed at Honda
“I said to them ‘may🥃be I will do one more year here then finish my career'"

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has shed light on a tense conversation with Honda, where he admitted o𝓡ne more year in the team would end his car𒐪eer.
Marquez opted to quit Honda - the team that delivered hi𝄹s six MotoGP titl𝔍es - to join Gresini Ducati this year.
So far, he has fought at the fron💧t multiple times in a stark🌃 contrast to last season, a year where he broke an unwanted personal record for the amount of crashes.
“It was a ♛super diff🐻icult decision,” he told TNT Sports about ending his Honda stay with a year remaining on his deal.
“It wasn’t listenꦦing to my heart. It was just thinking ab🉐out what’s best for my future.
𓃲“My future is that I want to be a MotoGP rider for many more y✃ears.
“The Repsol Honda team was my life, my career. It was super h♛ard. My mechanics, my tec🐼hnicians, sponsors are there.
“I said to them ‘maybe I will do one more year here then finish my career because my mental health wou🍃ld be finished’.
“So, I took this dec💝ision. Now I can think about which team I will ride next year for!”
Joining Gresini has resulted in the smile returning to Marque💜z’s face🧜.
“I am enjoying it,” he said.
“It’s not the same to ♏approach a weekend thinking of being in the top 10, or the top five or fight for the podium.
“This is the main reason why I took this decision - to answer to myself 𝔉if I am competitive enough.
“The answer is y𒀰es, I am competitive. Then, another thiꦯng is to be extra competitive to fight for the title.
“Now, I am competitive to fight for the top five with the 🍃top boys. This makes me happy.”
In thr𓂃ee rounds of the 2024 season, Marquez has score🦩d two P2 finishes in sprint races, and a P4 in the Qatar grand prix.
Meanwhile, his former team’s nightmare endures.
Three Hondas failed to finish the Americas MotoGP last weekend, while Luca Marini (who teamma꧙te Joan Mir described as a survivor just for making it to the end) finished last of the riders to complete the distance.
Marini, Marquez’s replacement at Repsol Hon♚da, is one of just two MotoGP riders without a point this season.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports,💟 to football, to F1.