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Alex Marquez: Ducati ‘makes you feel important’ as a MotoGP rider

Gresini Racing’s Alex Marquez says “you feel important” as a Ducati rider in MotoGP having felt a lack of support from Honda previously.

The 2019 Moto2 champion moved to Gresini Ducati for the 2023 season following a tough two-year stint with LCR Honda in 2021-22, where he failed to replicate his 2020 podium form when he was at the factory HRC squad.

Marquez scored a maiden pole position in MotoGP in the second round in Argentina and would go on to win two sprints, as well as scoring two grand prix podiums.

Asked by Autosport at the end of the 2023 season how he felt as a Ducati rider compared to being at Honda the previous year, he said: “I feel great. And already with the mind on next season.

“These last four, five races after my injury were to work for next year.

“And we tried a few things about set-up that are working. We were quite regularly in the top five, and that’s the objective for next year.

“So, it was a really positive season with a lot of things to improve.

Source: Autosport

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