2023-10-04 15:10:21
Although many expected it, no one can deny that The breakup between Marc Márquez and Honda is the news of the year in the Motorcycle World Championship. HRC announced this Wednesday, at 2:00 p.m., the departure of the driver from Cervera at the end of the season, thus anticipating the end of the last contract that the #93 signed for four years and that linked him to the Japanese house. at least until December 2024.
“Honda Racing Corporation and Marc Márquez have mutually decided end his four-year contract prematurely at the end of the 2023 season of the MotoGP World Championship”, starts the press release sent from Honda. “With one year left in the four-year contract between HRC and Marc Márquez, both parties have mutually agreed to end their collaboration at the end of the 2023 MotoGP World Championship season,” point out from Japan, a press release that ends with a very trite phrase: “HRC wishes Marc Márquez the best in his future projects.”
Honda thus loses the best driver in its history, the only one that has been able to make the RC213V competitive in the last decade. This is supported by the results of # 93, who until his serious injury in Jerez 2020 was the lord and master of the queen class with six world titles behind him, three of them in the form of a Triple Crown for his factory and for the Repsol Honda Team.
The humerus fracture that Marc suffered at the start of the 2020 season not only affected the #93’s sporting performance; right off the bat, HRC was left without the leader of its MotoGP project, the rider who had clearly set the course and development of the RC213V since 2013. From then on, the evolution of the motorcycle stagnated, and Honda found itself widely surpassed on a technical level by its European rivals, always with Ducati in the lead.
Since then, the Tokyo-based factory He has walked like a headless chicken through the championship; They burned Pol Espargaró, who came to the Repsol Honda Team with the hope of becoming MotoGP world champion and left fed up with the treatment he received there, and now it is Joan Mir who is suffering from the deficiencies of a prototype that continues to injure everyone the pilots who dare to compete with him.
Marc Márquez is tired of all this. At 30 years old, The one from Cervera knows that he has only a few seasons left at the highest leveland after giving HRC a period of two years (2022 and 2023) to give him a competitive motorcycle, he has said enough and will head to the box of a satellite team that has the best motorcycle of the moment, El Gresini Racingwhere it is still not entirely clear if the #93 will have a motorcycle from the previous year (that is, the GP23) or if Ducati will make an effort and give the Catalan an official motorcycle similar to the one worn by the Lenovo riders Team and PRAMAC.
For now, the next step that Marc has taken after making his divorce with Honda official is send your factory a message of thanks. The Catalan has taken advantage of his social networks to dedicate a video to the brand of his loves, and although in 2024 he will wear other colors and ride an Italian motorcycle, he has made it clear that, despite being separated, there will always be a place reserved in his heart for the Repsol Honda Team.
“Thank you for this great trip Honda”, the eight-time world champion has written. “11 years together. We have shared unforgettable moments: 6 World Championships, 5 Triple Crowns, 59 victories, 101 podiums and 64 pole positions. Laughter, tears, joy, hard moments but most importantly: a unique and unrepeatable relationship. Separated, but always together!”Cervera ends his message.
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The text is accompanied by an emotional video that starts with the celebration of Marc’s first title in Valencia 2013 and that ends with his latest success on the RC213V, the third place achieved in the last event in Japan, a podium “very romantic” as Marc himself defined when it was his last race at Honda driving for them.
THANK YOU for this great trip @hrc_motogp. ❤️ 11 years together.
???? Thank you for everything
We have shared unforgettable moments: 6 World Championships, 5 Triple Crowns, 59 victories, 101 podiums and 64 pole positions. Laughter, tears, joy, hard moments but most importantly: a relationship… pic.twitter.com/6rYLNfQrC2
— Marc Márquez (@marcmarquez93) October 4, 2023
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