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Should Marc Marquez have joined Ducati sooner? “No, I feel part of Honda” | MotoGP

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Last year in Buriram, Marc Marquez explained that he was leaving Repsol Honda for Gresini Ducati because he didn’t want to finish it MotoGP career with any “regrets”.

“The most important thing is that when I retire, I have no doubts about my decisions,” Marquez said in an interview with Crash.net.

Speaking towards the end of his second winless season at Honda, Marquez underwent further operations on his right arm, plus other injuries, as he pushed an uncompetitive RCV over the limit.

But the gamble of ditching Honda’s contract with a big-money factory to run a Desmosedici for a year has paid off handsomely.

The eight-time world champion returns to Thailand victorious in three of his last six GPs, is behind only Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia in the world championship and has a Ducati factory seat for 2025.

With MotoGP’s rejuvenation continuing with P1 during Friday practice at Buriram, Crash.net asked Marquez if he regrets not leaving Honda sooner.

“Ha, no, no! Because with Honda I have achieved a lot and I feel part of Honda”, replied Marquez.

“However, right now I am riding a Ducati and next year I will be a (factory) Ducati rider. Of course I will try to defend the Ducati colors.

“But Honda has been and will be a very important part of my career, or maybe the most important part – you never know.

“But I used to say when I was in Honda – because sometimes (people) would say, ‘Honda is Honda, he wins for Honda.’ (But) there were other Hondas…”

Marquez dominated the 2018 and 2019 seasons, then took Honda’s last three wins between arm surgeries in 2021. Meanwhile, no other RCV rider has won since Cal Crutchlow in 2018 to Alex Rins in 2023.

“If you’re a good rider, if you go to Honda and say, ‘I don’t care about the money, I just want to ride (your) best bike,’ they’ll give you (their) best bike if I’m a good driver,” Marquez continued.

“So in this case, we did the opposite. I go to Ducati and I said, “I don’t care about anything, I just want to ride the best bike.”

Even if that bike is a year-old car driven by a satellite team.

“Now, in the future, when I retire, I will be quiet about myself because I tried everything,” Marquez said.

“Of course when you make that kind of move (to Ducati) you put a lot of pressure on yourself and there can be a lot of negative comments if you don’t get what you want.

“But I have already achieved what I wanted.

“The target was to try to be longer in my career and try to feel competitive again. Then, if I win another title, it will be something in another hand.

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