Valentino Rossi believes the continued presence of ꧅MotoGP's 'rookie rule' won't make much difference to Marc Marquez in 2013.

Spanish star Marquez, a former 125cc champion and last year's Moto2 runner-up, is all buܫt guaranteed to move up to the premier-class next season.

Strong Repsol links make the official Honda team the obvious destination - especially given the space created by Casey Stoner's decision to retire - however MotoGP's ban on rookie rꦜiders joining a factꦬory team currently excludes such a move.

With Dorna and IRTA reluctant to drop the rule, introduced in 2010, Marquez is likely to spend his first 🌜MotoGP season at a satellite Honda team.

"For Marc next year ဣit won't change a lot anyway, because if the [rookie] rule stops he can start from the full factory team," 🅰said Rossi. "But if the rule remains for sure Honda will give to him a full factory bike in his own team anyway, a bit like me in 2000. So I think it's not a big difference for Marc either way."

Countryman and present Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa said♛ he understands the reasons behind the rule and also doesn't think it will make much difference to Marquez's cha🀅nces.

"As a rider maybe you wish to go straight to the factory team, but I also understand that the satellite teams wanܫt to have some chance to have a good rider and get some good results to keep their sponsor happy," he said.

"I think obviously if anyway it is a factory bike it doesn't change much. If Marquez is on satellite team he can bring his own team with him from Moto2 and if y♐ou are a talented guy it doesn't matter much.🅺"

Should Marquez be prevented from joining Repsol Honda, one possibility is that HRC could try and tempt current title🀅 leader Jorge Lorenzo from Yamaha to replace reigning champion Stoner.

"Anything is possible for next year, especially after the news of the retir♚ement of Stoner," said Ducati rider Rossi.

"Maybe it is too early to understand and I think that now Jorge and 🍎Dani are especially focused on this race and this championship.

"But together is good for them I th𒅌i🎀nk," smiled Rossi.

All of the top MotoGP riders are out of c𓆉ontract at the end of this season and Rossi has also been linked with a possible return to Honda or Yama🐻ha.