The future of the Repsol Honda rider is set to dominate the🎀 summer silly season, with everybody ⭕in the paddock aware that his current deal expires at the end of 2024.

KTM te💟am manager Francesco Guidotti was asked about acquiring Marquez and refused to deny their interest.

"Marc is not a topic we discuss, we have an excellent [breeding ꦑgr🅷ound for young riders] and we draw from there,” Guidotti told . 

“Marquez at the moment💧 is not a feasib🙈le option, he has a contract with Honda. 

“In 2025 it will be another matter, b𒁃oth for him an✅d for all the riders whose contracts will expire.”

No rider on the current MotoGP grid is contracted beyond 2024.

Jack Miller and Brad Binder, KTM’s current factory riders, are tied down f🐻or next ꦫseason.

But Marquez - as today’s most successful rider and also its🤪 h♌ighest paid - is the biggest source of intrigue.

His misfiring Honda machinery means that his best hop𝄹e of a seventh premier class championship might lie with a rival manufa♕cturer.

Marquez and KTM are linked by Red Bull🧸, their mega-powerful mutual sponsor.

Marquez: “Lie” that he “offered” himself to KTM

Marquez has already “offered himself” to KTM bu♔t the manufacturer rejected him, according to DAZN’s .

“They have rejectꦦed him due to the ‘strategy’ of the brand,” Jove reported.

“That's what the👍 KTM boss൲ has said and, by the way, I don't believe it either. It can be only an initial strategy for the negotiation.”

Marquez hit back to : “It’s a lie.

“I've heard this rumour becau𝄹se one of my mechanics has joked and it's a complete lie. 

“Yes, it's true that when the factories see that a rider is in difficulty, they ask♑ and in this case I'm still committed to Honda, I have a valid contract, so nothing.”

Honda hint they won’t force Marquez to stay

Honda team manager Alberto Puig offered a startling re♋sponse when asked if he anticipat🌄ed that his star rider would stay next season.

“I have to think yes,”꧟ Puig said. “Because 🍌we have a contract. 

“But I have to say that I think every pe🃏rson is free to do what he wants in life, and Honda is not a company that wants to have people that are not happy being in Honda.

“So of course, we have a contract with him, but also Honda respects Marc a lot and I want t🔯o think yes [Marquez will be a Honda rider in 2024], b♛ased on the contract, but I don't have a magic ball.”