The Spaniard’s future home, following Suzuki’s MotoGP wit♏hdraw, was all but confirmed when current LCR rider Alex Marquez signed at Gresini Ducati for 2023.

“We are almost done, everybody can imagine where I will go next year with༺ t๊he exit of Alex Marquez [from LCR] going to Gresini,” Rins admitted.

“Still, it is not offiওcial because I did not sign, the last signature, but we are quite close so maybe in the next days it will be [done].”

The෴ triple MotoGP race winner explained earlier in the Assen weekend that his priority was to have a 2023-spec bik꧑e next season.

Of the opportunities available to him, a 2023 machine was something only LCR could offer, with Gresini running GP22s and th🌳e new RNF Aprilia squad also set to use year-old bikes.

“In the end I was managing the Ducati option - the Gresini option - 🌟or the LCR option,” Rins revealed. “We were talking with Ducati and they did not give me an official [2023] bike.

“I was fighting for an official bike and Ho✨nda was able to give me that possibility. It’s a nice project because right now, the bike is not going so good in terms of results, so let’s see if we can manage to make a good bike.

“I like a challenge because I think that we did a really good job [developing the bike] at Suzuki and so we can do something similar for Lucio [Cecchinello],” Ri🍸ns added.

HRC is expected to have both Suzuki riders in their line-up next season, with Rins’ team-mate Joan Mir 𒐪set to join Repsol Honda alongsi🧸de Marc Marquez.

Current LCR rider Takaaki Nakagami and Moto2💜's Ai Ogura head the rum❀oured list of candidates for the second satellite seat, next to Rins.

Rins: ‘Something strange happened’

Rins completed his first race since the wrist fracture in Barcelona in tenth place at Assen on Sunday, his hopes of a stronger result thwarted by a b📖ad start.

“I don’t know if I was missing the feeling for the starts,ꦆ after missing the last race, but something strange happened that we are not used to,” he said. “I was starting P9 but then I crossed the finished line [to end lap 1] in P16.

“So I lost a lot of time and also it was a little difficult to warm the rear tyre. When 🎶Aleix overtook me, I was trying to follow hi𝓰m, but not enough.

“I was not feeling super confident wit๊h the bike, so in the end I arrived to Olive💮ira and Mir, and I stayed there. Because I had no power in my right hand. Maybe from compensating too much (for the injured left wrist].

“It is what it is. We finished the race, taking🌟 points for the first time since Portimao. Let’s understand this race and be stronger for Silverstone.”

Mir finished less than half-a-second ahead of💫 Rins in eighth and is now two points ahead of his team-mate for seventh place in the world championship standings.