Upon returning to▨ the MotoGP paddock in Austria, for the first time since undergoing the fourth operation 🌳on his right arm, Marquez said:

“It's true that my intention is to make some ra🀅ces this year. At next week’s [medical check] I will have the answer if it will be possible or not.”

The Misano test has long been touted as a possible MotoGP return since it is the only chance for the eight-tim🦩e world cꦗhampion to try an RC213V outside of a race weekend before the end of this season.

The test i♌s also likely to see Honda bring proto🍃type 2023 parts, and perhaps even a complete bike, for initial evaluation.

Marquez downplayed his chances of being on♍ track for the early September outing, which follows the San Marino race weekend, saying “I don't know. I don't think so, it's too tight” but also admitted he “won’t wait to be at 100%”.

“When I feel 70%-80%, when I will feel that I can ride a MotoGP bike in a more-or-le𒊎ss good way, I will come back,” he said. “Because for the last part of the rehabilitation, the best way is to be on the bike. You c❀annot wait to be at 100% before riding a bike.”

Speaking to DAZN over the Red Bull Ring weekend, Repsol Honda team manager Alberto Puig made clear they are hoping to see the #93 back on track, for t𓂃he first tiღme since Mugello, at the Misano test:

“We’ll have to wait and see. I don’t thin🧜k he’ll be ready for the race weekend [September 2-4], but if he could be ready for the te🅠st.

"Even if it was not 🥀for 100 laps, just 4, it would be very important.

“If he’sꦦ not there, it would make our work more difficult…”

Despite being repeatedly sidelined by arm and eye injuries for the last three seasons, Marquez remains th💟e only Honda rider to have won a MotoGP race since early 2018.

He also remains the top Hon🍌da rider in this year's standings, despite slipping to 15th after missing seven of ꦛthe 13 rounds.

Marquez's 12-week medical check-🌠up, following bone realignment surgery in the USA, will take place later this week.

Marc Marquez no longer managed by Emilio Alzamora?

Whenever Marc Marquez does return to action, it looks like it’ll be without long-time personal manager Emilio Alz💜amora.

Alzamora, the 19♑99 125cc world champion, has guided the ⭕careers of Marc and younger brother Alex since their days in the Spanish championships.

However, during the Austrian weekend, r💫eporte🐈d that the near two-decade relationship between the Marquez brothers and Alzamora had come to an end.

While there has been no official confirmation of a split from either the Marquez brothers or Alzamora, and it seems Honda has not been informed of any rider management change, reports that Jaime Martínez, 34, 🐠from Red☂ Bull Spain is to become Marc Marquez’s new personal manager.