Alberto Puig has pointed out why Marc Marquez was forced to wait ꧙for his first win post-Honda.

Marquez secured his first wins on a Ducati last weeke๊nd in Arago☂n, rolling back the years to deliver a perfect weekend.

Marquez revealed that he visited🌠 his former colleagues at Honda - where he won his eight woওrld championships - so they felt “a part” of his newest success.

“I was very happy about Marc's victory…🅺and I expecteꦦd it,” Repsol Honda team boss Puig told .

“And I'll tell you more: I expected him to win sooner, but I was very surprised by the difference between this year's Ducati and the 202🍌3 Ducati.

“I think that this difference, which is important, has prevented Marc𓆉 from winning rac🏅es in the first third of the season.

“That and, of course, that both Pecco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin and even Enea Bastia꧅nini are riding wonderfully and are t👍hree great riders.

Puig’s𓃲 Honda remain stuck at the back of the grid, the key reason Marquez chose to quit last year.

But he insists that riding a ‘23 Ducati has held Marquez back th🧸is season.

“That is why I say that what Marc has just achieved, winning with a motorcycle from last year against the official Ducati on𓄧es, has even more merit.

“I'm not involved in Ducati, but I've been here for many years, watching and analySing the races and the difference between this year's Ducati andܫ last year's is big.

“ℱthat's why Marc's merit, by winning in Aragon, is immense. And, I repeat, I expected it, it doesn't surprise me in the least."

Puig paid tribute to the chꦜampion that was once Honda’s star.

“I know better t෴han anyone who Marc M🌞arquez is, he is a rider with beastly capabilities.

“I know that, following his tremendous accident in ൩Jerez, many people doubted him.

“And I understand it,🍒 because everything was complicated, not only the injuries, the diplopia in his eyes, the motorcycle that didn't work, but, even with everything, I never doubted that I would win again, nev♏er!

“Marc has returned to being Marc, he has won again, not because o😼f his talent, not because of the Ducati, not because of his new team…no, no.

“Marc has won again because he had it very clear.

“When you become obsessed with a goal, when you have things as clear as Marc had them and have them, when you have a determinati𒐪on as brutal as he has, it is impossible for what you pursue, what you propose, not to happen.

“And ♒even less so when it comes to ☂a phenomenon like Marc.”