Marc Marquez has opened up on the burden of leaving Honda for Ducati.

The decision has paid off on-track, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez returning to wꩵinning ways last year on Gresini’s year-old Ducati.

He is now top of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings after four rounds in 2025, having won🔯 seven out of eight races.

But Marquez needed to break his Honda contract, which was the most lucrative in the sport at the time, to prioritise the better machinery on offer at Ducati.

He also stopped working with long-time sponsors Red Bull a✨ꦑnd Repsol.

Marquez reportedly walked away from 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a Honda offer worth nine figures.

Marc Marquez: "The money is important..."

“It was a big responsibility, and a super difficult decision,” Marquez told about leaving Honda, where he had enjoyed his heyday and won each of his six MotoGP titles.

“More than the money, which for everybody, 98% of people🎃, the money is important…”

Marqu🌳ez was reminded how much money he had earned from his 🎃MotoGP success with Honda.

He acknowledged𝓀: “Yes, but the money is always important. Do you have enough? Yes. Do you want more? Yes.

“That was difficult. But the most difꦫficult thing♒ were the relationships.

“I need to be loyal with people w🌳ho gave me my career.

“But before taking a decision I spoke to Honda, Red Bull, Repsol. They gave me advice, 80% was ‘you are here to compete, to do your best, sometimes in life you need to take a decis💝ion, if the mechanics from Honda are your friends, they will [stay] your friends’.

“We had a dinne𝓀r together in Barcelona. We didn’t speak about bikes, we spoke about life. Dinner as friends.

“After listening to alꦇl the people, they convince𝓀d me.

“They said: ‘You are taking care of your mechanics, your family, your sponsors but it’s your career - it will be 15 or 20 years, you need to mak♎e the best of it’.

“I would’ve liked to stay in the same team with the s🌄ame people because it was my target.

“But I needed to find the b♕est to peღrform in the best way.

“𓆏That was my decision to continue with my career. Because I was no𝓀t enjoying it, I would’ve stopped, that’s it.”

Marquez credits Gresini Racing for helping him ꦍto rediscover his love of racing last year, after a brutal crash-filled 2023 with Honda.

This year, Marquez has stepped up to factory Ducati machinery and has left teammate Pecco Bagnaia trailing in his🐓 wake.

Meanwhile, Hon🤪da’s MotoGP project has shown signs of improvement too.