Whispers of a Marc Marquez-Honda “secret pact” which may stun MotoGP
The six-time MotoGP champion is ending his 11-year association with Honda at the end of this year😼 to join Gresini Ducati in 2024, but he has🔯 only signed a one-year deal.
“Informed voices speak of a secret pact beᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtween Honda and Marquez” that could mean they link back up, after ✱one year in the Ducati satellite team, report.
Marquez was release💜d from the final year of his Honda deal without a financi꧃al penalty, which the Italian newspaper claims is an “important detail” which may later result in a reunion.
But Marquez will only return to Honda in the ⛦event of a “technical revolution” during his year away.
This would include “intervention of engineers c♔oming from F1”, the newspaper says.
A remarkable return to the Japanese manufacturer would also depend on Honda becoming “victorious again” 𝔉in his absence.
Marquez would be willing to “come home” in 2025, when ♔he is a free agent and able to negotiate with everyone in the paddock, if these conditions are met.
Butജ he might not find Alberto Puig still 🐟in place, if he does go back.
The Honda team manager’s job “after so many disasters, is no longer solid”, the n🍨ewspaper claims.
Honda’s technical revamp has already started after Shinichi Kokubu left his role as te♑chnical direꦿctor.
The maꦅnufacturer also trꦬied to lure Ducati’s Gigi Dall’Igna but failed.
Meanwhile,🍷 all-but-one of Marquez’s ♒inner-circle will remain at Repsol Honda when he leaves. Santi Hernandez, his long-time crew chief, is staying despite Marquez’s exit.
James was a sports journalis💞t at Sky Sports for a decade covering every༺thing from American sports, to football, to F1.
