Repsol Honda team manager Puig is under pressure after a horrible season - in Germany he oversaw the first MotoGP race in 40 years where Honda scored zero points, he watched star man Marquez undergo a career-threatening surgery then somehow still out-score his teammates in the end-of-year 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP standings.

Marquez, who has enjoyed his heyday ♐alongside Puig as well as his darkest moments when his racing future was at stake, said with two races left in 2022: “The people can speak bull**** about 🎉Alberto, but for me he is crucial.

“He is crucial because he is honest. When a person is honest and speaks straight to you, normally this per🧔son doesn’t have a lot of friends.

“Alberto is honest. Inside the team, a person like this is mo🍷st impor💙tant.

“He doesn’t care if you are an eight-time world champion - he doesn’t care if💧 you are an engineer from NASA! He doesn’t care!

“If he says or believes ‘this is not the direction’, he wi♏ll say it to you. He is a person who helps a lot.

“Iꦦ have heard many comments abo🔥ut Alberto but I am very happy with him.”

Puig said: “I know Marc very well, he is 🐎our rider, he is my friend. I fully understand what he i📖s going through.

“I am connected to his programme.

“When you enter this type of posit෴ion in a racing team you must understand that you will ✤have good and bad moments.

“If yoꦉu pretend it will be pa༒radise, it means you don’t understand this racing field.

“We have had very good years, now we 🧔are 🌄suffering really badly.

“How do I handle it? I just handle it.”

Marquez was speaking ahead of the Malaysian MotoGP, by which ti♐me he had recovered from his latest major surgery to score a pole position in Japan and a podium finish in Australia. An awful year for Honda finally had some hope for the future.

He ended the season in 13th despite missing six rounds due to injury - somehow, still above fellow Honda riders 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pol Espargaro and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Takaaki Nakagami.

That optimism was partially wiped out when Marquez✤ criticised Repsol Honda’s 2023 prototype bik🥃e at the postseason Valencia test.

His brother Alex will be in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2023 MotoGP rider line-up for Gresini D🧸ucati, a move which may worry Honda if it paves the way for their star man to eventually follow.