The eight-time grand prix world champion solely signed a one-year take care of Gresini for the 2024 season and is a key piece of the rider marketplace for subsequent 12 months.
Whereas Ducati administration has publicly by no means dominated out the potential for Marquez being signed by the producer in 2025, a brand new contract for reigning double world champion Francesco Bagnaia and Moto2 star Fermin Aldeguer have taken two manufacturing facility Desmosedici’s off the desk.
Although the rider market is ready to maneuver fairly rapidly in 2024, Marquez says he’s simply centered on his personal season in the interim and says extra alternatives will current themselves if he supplies good outcomes on-track.
“In fact, my state of affairs is totally completely different than up to now,” he mentioned when requested about his future on Thursday forward of the Portuguese Grand Prix.
“Prior to now in December I signed already the contract for the subsequent 12 months. Proper now, I’ve no rush.
“I imply, I simply need to consider myself, simply attempt to do my finest on the race monitor.
“And I do know that if I take pleasure in it and I’m sooner I’ll have extra potentialities to decide on a seat.
Marc Marquez, Gresini Racing
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“However, to this point I don’t need to converse. I simply need to consider myself, what I did in Qatar, what I’ll do right here.
“Some races shall be higher, some races shall be worse.
“However I’ll attempt to do my hundred % as a result of I do know that in sport, the current counts, not the previous.
“So, the current is like this and I have to work as a result of there are two, three, 4 riders sooner than me.”
Marquez comes into the second spherical of the 2024 season in Portugal having made a powerful debut on the Ducati in Qatar, ending fourth within the grand prix.
However he says his method is identical because it was in Qatar and is conscious that he’s now coming to a circuit the place he has no prior information of the bike for the primary time this season.
“The method of the weekend is strictly the identical as Qatar,” he added.
“Clearly, we now have a brand new reality that we’ll go right away to a race circuit in a race weekend that modifications a bit the planning, as a result of right away from FP1 you need to be on the lap instances, it is advisable be quick and it was essentially the most troublesome factor in Malaysia and Qatar [in the tests].
“In these first days I used to be struggling a bit, so let’s see if right here in Portimao I can begin right away in that prime 10 place, to leap to straight to QP2, which is the primary goal.
“However let’s see the place we’re on a very completely different race monitor.”
