168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has ꦫdelivered an update on his troublesome🧜 arm which previously threatened to retire him.

Marquez’s move from Repsol Honda to Gresini Ducati this year has sparked new optimism in the six-time MotoGP champion.

But the lingering physical issue in his arm - from a fracture suffered in Jerez four years ago - are a lingering ⛎reminder of his limitations.

"As I have always said, and I am not lying, it is an arm with four operations that requires more main🦄tenance than the other,” he told .

“And so you have to take good care of it.

You have to pamper it, but well.

"I h🍸ave been able to have a normal preseason. I have tested well at home."

Marquez was forced to consider retirement as he went through the fourth arm๊ operation in 2022.

Although he recovered to resume his esteemed career, a 2023 blighted by a🌟 re🌠cord-high quantity of crashes on his Honda did little to inspire confidence.

Switching to Ducati - last yea🍰r’s dominant bike - should help to curtail 💜the physical blows he has become accustomed to taking.

Marquez was unhurt from his first crash on a Ducati, in the final hour of preseason testing in Qatarꦇ when heꦜ was seeking the limit of his new machine.

He explained: "I was doing the long ꦦrun, I did fall on lap 12, I🍸 think, but I had planned to do 20.

"W🅺hen you plan it like this, you feel good physically.

"Being realistic, at the mome🐷nt we are fighting fifth, sixth.

"It's very relative because then you get here to the grand prix and the tyre changes on 🌳the track, everything changes.

“But at the moment if it had been a race, we are - I think we need to see the exact papers - fꦜourth, fifth, sixth, in the best of scenari🗹os."

His fellow Ducati riꦕvals remain the riders to beat when raci꧟ng begins on March 8 in Qatar.

"There are still three, four riders who luckily are ridinജg in the same factory with," Marqu✱ez said.

"I can learn from them and I must🐼 learn from them how to get the most out of it.

"There are still a few things missing. The importanꦓt thing is the evaluation of the preseason is good.

“Because we have had a solid preseason, without getting nervous, ൩respecting the times that were needed to get to know the bike.”

Last season’s title rivals Francesc𝓀o Bagnaia and Jorge Mꦅartin - who have left the GP23 to Marquez and stepped onto the developed GP24 - are expected to resume their place at the front.