BREAKING: Marc Marquez will leave Honda at the end of 2023

October 4, 2023 October 4, 2023

Marc Marquez and Honda will mutually part ways at the end of the season.

Marc Marquez will leave Honda at the end of 2023, ending their four-year contract prematurely. It brings an end to an 11-year relationship where Marquez took Honda to six premier-class World Championships. Together they also took five Triple Crowns, 59 wins, 101 podiums and 64 pole positions.

Marquez took his debut victory in the premier class aboard the Honda RC213V at the Grand Prix of the Americas in Austin, Texas in 2013 to become the youngest premier class winner and would become the youngest premier class World Champion later that year.

In 2014 he defended his title and won the opening 10 consecutive races of the year, continuing his dominance. Marquez also claimed the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 World Championship as an HRC rider with the Repsol Honda Team.

It is not yet confirmed where Marquez will go next season with rumours suggesting that he will ride a Ducati. The only seat available on the grid is at Gresini Ducati, where his brother currently races.

Marquez recently tested the 2024 Honda MotoGP bike with mixed feedback from the Misano Test. The Spaniard did not feel that there was much improvement: “The riding style is quite different but, in the end, the problems are the same, so we need to keep working. Of course, you always expect more. If this is the base, if this is the bike, then we are far. We need to work and change many things.”

After the test, Marquez also admitted that he had other options for next season stating that he had three options.

“There’s plan A, plan B, and plan C, which I previously mentioned as two, there are three. I have the three plans, and the three ideas very clear, I am clear about what needs to happen for each of them. But there isn’t much time. There is a deadline. Around India, Japan I will decide.”

Both parties will continue to give their full support for the remaining rounds of the 2023 MotoGP World Championship season.

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