MARC Marquez has decided to move to Gresini Racing, following 11 seasons with Honda. A move that will rejuvenate his career and ultimately pave the way for him to join the factory Ducati team next year.
After nine rounds, Marquez is currently third in the standings, 56 points behind Francesco Bagnaia and 24 points behind Jorge Martin, with an 11-point gap over Enea Bastianini, the rider he will replace next year.
“The first half of the season was good. You might say not super good because we made some mistakes,” said Marquez, as reported by Crash, (10/9).
“Trying to be in the first three positions of the championship might be a good target, because it will not be easy to keep Enea behind. He is a fast rider.”
“Apart from that, the only thing we need to improve in the second half of the season is to try to make really good (trouble-free) weekends,” he added. We will keep fighting, keep learning from the top two riders on Ducati, Martin and Bagnaia. They are a little bit faster than us,” he added.
Marquez will also be looking to rectify his own mistakes when the MotoGP season restarts at Silverstone in early August, explaining his assessment so far.
“For me, eight (out of ten). It was a good start to the season but there were some mistakes. Especially Austin and the Sprint race in Assen were the two big mistakes. The race was acceptable, but we were a bit inconsistent during the weekend,” he said.
“We saved a lot of things in Le Mans. We saved things in different races, but we need to find a way to be more consistent during the weekend, go straight into Q2 and try to improve on Saturday.”
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