Wayne Gardner, the 1987 500cc world champion, claims he💞 is concerned by the quality of Marquez’s life as he grows older having alrea🐎dy suffered so many injuries.

20💦23 has been full of crashes, and injuries, for Marque📖z who is currently rehabilitating from a rib problem.

“Marc has been through a lot of injuries, but he com♔es back and gets injured again,” Gardn෴er told . 

“In my day, if ꦆwe had five or six crashes a yea🃏r, you could seriously injure yourself. 

“However, thanks to all the current equipment, riders get in🐬jured less, but fall🌜 more. 

“In short: they get away with it. 

“I have been in the same situation as Mar🐽c, in a situation where you have suffered many injuries and it is difficult to win again.

“The mentality changes, the body weakens and al൲l of this becomes a cycle of frustration. 

“My opinion is that Marquez should rꦉetire while he can. 

“I'm a big fan of his, but I'm afraid he'll get hurt if he tries tཧo come back𝔍. 

“The bikes have changed, the riders are much younger. He is already 30🍌 years old and it is a different mentality. 

“I do not say this as a critical point of view, I am worried about ꦓhis future life. 

“You have to understand that you💮 still have 50 more years to live.”

• MotoGP schedule chan⛦g🌟e: “We are full attack from P1” - Marc Marquez

Repsol Honda rider Marquez persevered through career-threatening arm surgery last summer and entered this season😼 injury-free for the first time in years.

But an opening-weekend crash in Portimao caused a hand injury which sidelined him for three rounds, and he has since endured disastrous back-to-back rounds at the Sachsenring and Assen where he was forced to withdraw from both grands pri🍸x just hours before they began.

“Winning 🤪another race after having eight world championships should not be a priority now,” Gardner said. 

“My opinion is that he has already done enough.

“The problem is that Marc is so, so competitive that he keeps rolling faster and faster until 🌳he crashes. 

“We've all been in that position and one day you wake up and say to yourself mayꦡbe you shouldn't take such a risk and that you'd like to enjoy the rest of your life. That's how I see it today."

Marquez’s multiple crashes are largely cons🅷idered to be because he is over-riding a limited bike.

“At Honda they are not investing i🤡n🐬 good test riders,” Gardner said. 

“They are relying on Marquez, who is very fast, but I don't th☂ink he is a very good test ꦬrider. Marquez is very talented, but the problem is that he is not a test rider and he does not know how to improve the bike. 

“Thisꦗ is where a lot of riders aren't up to his level and he keeps pushing beyond what the bike itself is.”