Marquez’s current Honda contract officially runs until the end of ne🦋xt season but there have been regular rumours, never entirely extinguished by the eight-time world champion, that he might even make a shock team switch f♕or 2024.

Quizzed on how crucial next month’s Misano test an😼d first ride on next year’s Honda prototype will be when deciding where to race for 2025, the Spaniard replied:

“You are talking about 2025? The rumours 🦹for 2024 still haven’t finished! Every we🍒ek there is a different rumour! So don’t start with 2025, please!

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​​​​​​“Joking aside, in Misano the new bikeꦐ will arrive. We need to continue working. But there is no rush [to decide] for the future.

“It’s important, the first step is to have the commit༺ment. I believe that Honda have always had the same commitment. Everybody must understand the situation is critical and we must change something together.

“I say ‘we’ because I feel part of this project, and I want the best for it. They will invest more money and bring in more engineers. But as a rider we only evaluate [progress] on th🗹e race track, not in the office or with the technicians.

“I will evaluate the effort on the race track, riding the bike. Just like they 🎀evaluate my level. This is racing.”

Turning to this weekend’s event at the Red Bull Ring, an event🌟 Marquez missed last season due to the fourth operation on his right arm, the #93 confirmed he will continue the ‘new approach’ from Silverstone.

“The only change at Si✨lverstone was to forg🍃et the result, and try to find the limit of our package,” he said.

“Sometimes you are taking risk. At Silverstone my target was to finish wit🌠hout a crash but unfortunately,♔ in a race incident, I crashed on Sunday. Most importantly I rebuilt my confidence. This is the target again here.”

Marquez then revealed he has decided to homologate the new high-downforce fairing debuted by LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami at💎 the British round.

“I’m working on myself, training, to improve. Honda is also working, as you will see to♛morrow; I will try the new aero package. Let’s see if we can improve step-by-step, tenth-by-ten♈th.”

Repsol Honda team-mate will also have the new fairing and winꦯgs, which forms thei🏅r one allowed in-season update.