Alex Marquez on move away from factory team: “I didn’t feel productive - Honda didn’t profit from me”

The younger brother of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez spent the 2020 MotoGP season riding for Honda❀’s factory team, delivering some rare glimmers of 𒁏light in an otherwise difficult year.
But he was replaced by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pol Espargaro after one year, and was moved to LCR Honda, where he remained for two years until his departure this month for Gresini Ducati for whom he will feature in a new-look 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2023 MotoGP rider line-up.
“Honestly, in that mome♕nt I did not really agree with that decision,” Marquez said about being moved to LCR Honda.
“But I respected it, and I und🍒er꧅stood the position of Honda. But we can’t change the past.
“That decision was a little bit h😼ard for me, and I didn’t feel productive 👍inside LCR for Honda – not for the team, for Honda.
“So, I had many days there where I was likꦬe ‘Ok, I can help’. Honda didn’tprofit from me.
“At that moment it was hard for me but I needed to a💛ccept it.
“I learned a♒ lot, I’m🔯 grateful to Honda, they gave the opportunity to me. We can just look to the future.”

His switch to Ducati ꦚis particularly notable because he leaves behind his brother Marc whose hopes for the 2023 championship may rest with the underperforming Honda bike.
But Alex said: “I had a good relationship withꦚ Honda. I didn’t have any problems. 𝕴;
“It’s not൲ the same in the💎 satellite team and the factory team. OK, your contract can be factory but it’s not exactly the same.
“The satellite team, 𒆙always new pieces arrive later, and when you have a bike with a lot of problems you can feel it a lot.
“B🌊ut my relationship with Honda will always be great, I will always be grateful because they gave me the opportunity to jump to MotoGP. I won with them in Moto3.”

James was a sports journalis🐼ꦑt at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.