The six-time MotoGP champion is likely to sensationally quit Honda and join Gresini Duc💯ati in 2024 although he has refused to confirm his plan.

This weekend at the Japan🗹ese MotoGP - the home race for Honda - Marquez is expected to enter crucial talks with the manufacturer’s𝓀 top bosses.

"If there has to be a meeting, I esti꧅mate it should be on Tuesday, Wednesday,” ex-Honda rider Pedrosa told . 

“If they go on to do an event in Tokyo, for HRC, maybe there they can have a 🌳first meeting.

"If they don't finish everything in those first meetings, maybe 🧜during the weeke꧒nd something more. 

“It's not usually the dynamic🌊 of doing office things at the💙 grand prix because you already get into racing mode."

The content of Marquez’s meeting 🍷with Honda bosses is unknown but he could reportedly t🗹ell them face-to-face of his plan to quit.

"From the way he speaks, it seems that he wants to talk to the most represented people at HRC and Honda to see if there are any changes t൲hat he is looking for," Pedrosa said.

Pedrosa spent 13 years in the premier class riding for Honda, and is the ♕most successful🀅 rider in MotoGP history to have never won a championship.

Now a KTM test rider and occasi🌳onal wild card entry, he has thrilled ꦰfans and impressed his peers in two races this year.

Pedrosa saw Marquez crash from fourth at last weekend’s Indian﷽ MotoGP, before he recovered to finish ninth, and he said: "It was the key to re-entering ninth, in the points, after a crash it is a fantastic result.

"Obviously more people have fallen too, but he has been very little time on the ground and has been ab♍le to lift the bike without stopping the engine, his hand alw🍃ays in the clutch and get back out.

"His race has been good, plus he has shown that this weekend he has put on that more winn🌟ing attitude again. He has not gone out much to con𝓀serve and he has also shown it with that comeback after the fall.

"Maybe in this grand prix, despite the asphalt we have seen and the tyres they ha♎ve had, it has matched a little all the performance of the other biꦜkes down. So I think that has helped Yamaha and Honda to be a bit closer.”

Asked if the In💛dian MotoGP represent🐼ed a major step forward for Honda, Pedrosa said: "He is cautious because of the feelings they have had this weekend for the races to come."