MotoGP star Marc Marquez has stated he feels “reborn” after a 12 months working at Gresini and has thanked the squad for taking part in an essential function in his profession.
Having left Honda with a 12 months left on his contract on the finish of 2023, Marquez discovered new life at Ducati’s satellite tv for pc workforce Gresini this season regardless of having to make do with the previous GP23 bike.
Though the preliminary adaptation curve was steep, the Spaniard was instantly fast when the brand new season began in March, earlier than choosing up tempo after the summer season break to assert three victories and finish the 12 months third within the standings.
His early season outcomes performed an essential function in serving to him land a factory seat at Ducati from 2025, and he’s now poised to combat for the championship subsequent season for the primary time in 5 years.
Marquez stated he wanted a pleasant setting to get well from a tough finish to his 11-year stint at Honda, which was hampered by each a career-altering harm and an uncompetitive bike.
“Gresini grew to become an excellent essential workforce in my profession solely in a single 12 months and I discovered the proper environment to [be] reborn, like they are saying on social media, to really feel once more that I am aggressive,” stated Marquez.
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“I discovered the proper household, good environment with my brother [Alex] as a team-mate, with the workforce.
“They had been all the time working in the identical method. It is a workforce that’s tremendous skilled and you may obtain what you need with this workforce.”
Run by Nadia Padovani, the spouse of late founder and former rider Fausto Gresini, Gresini Racing is an unbiased workforce that receives little in the best way of manufacturing unit help from Ducati in comparison with Pramac and VR46.
However it’s the workforce’s small-scale nature that Marquez believes was essential in revitalising his profession, having beforehand labored in a extra company setting of an organization as large as Honda.
“Being on a satellite tv for pc workforce jogged my memory in regards to the ardour of motorbikes,” he added. “After all, in Honda, I had my pals there and I had an excellent workforce.
“However the reality is in a manufacturing unit workforce, every little thing is a little more severe. So this one [Gresini] is a little more informal, extra acquainted.
Marc Marquez, Ducati Crew
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“It reminds you extra, after all, in one other method, like a Moto2 workforce after I was there. You communicate with the boss of the workforce, so that you communicate to those that take the ultimate determination.
“You’ll be able to go to Nadia on this case and communicate together with her. I believe ‘this’ and [she says] ‘okay, we go forward’.
“And naturally a very powerful factor is that they’ve the bike. [In a] satellite tv for pc workforce with a very good bike, you’ll be able to obtain superb issues as I did this 12 months, as different riders did the earlier years with Gresini.
“They’ve a really lengthy historical past and a really lengthy expertise in managing totally different sorts of conditions.”