Th෴e key image from the Italian MotoGP🌳 was Marquez, after clambering back to his feet in the gravel, gesticulating with frustration at his stricken bike.

He had crashed out from fourth - he has failed to finish the most re🦩cent four grands prix that he has entered - while fellow Honda riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins suffered injuries at Mugello,ꩵ too.

“It’s not a secret,” Marquez told . 

“We know Honda is in a difficult moment and all their riders are ꦺstruggling a lot. 

“I hope that toget🦩her we can improve the project. ไ;

“🎶Now we maybe lose the way a bit and the bike is not competitive. But we will arrive.”

Marquez’s future is the source of gr🍃eat debate within the paddock.

He is tied to H🎀onda on the most lucrative contract in the sport until the end﷽ of 2024.

🧜He is a six-times premier class champion but is now aged 30, with ജa dreadful history of injury behind him.

Marquez was asked aboꦰut seeking a new team but replied: “I have a two-year contract with Honda so my target is to try to find the best because I’m convinced Honda can do it.

“Look w𝐆hat they do in Form♌ula One where they [supply] the best engine for Red Bull. So I believe in them.”

Red Bull are in their third year of dominating ꦕF1.

Marquez entered 2023 injury-free for the first time in years but, on the first w🌺eekend in Portimao, broke a hand in a crash with Miguel Oliveira.

Six rounds into the season he has not finished a grand prix yet, and his championship hopes are surely over ꦅalready.

“It is very difficu♏lt,"♕ he said. "I am [116] points behind the leader and, as you say, we don’t have the bike to be the fastest. 

“But we have a long caleඣndar and let’s see if we c🌼an continue working and find the rhythm to win a race again.

“I need t🌟he target. The target, the title, was there but it is now much more💫 difficult because I was out three races.

“We show that we are fast in a single la๊p but now we need to improve the pace and be more consistent during a weekend.”

Next weekend is the German MotoGP at Sachsenring - historicallyꦿ, one of Marquez’s favourite ci🎶rcuits.