Alex Marquez was a transfer market sensation when he confirmed at Assen the rumor that Paolo Ciabatti had himself suggested by signing for a Ducati in 2023. We did not imagine, until then, the little brother of the big Marc Marquez able to emerge from this heavy shadow of the elder which seemed to isolate him under a Honda awning. After all, his arrival in MotoGP in 2020, immediately within the Repsol factory team, was attributed in the comments more to the family piston than to his two world titles. One in Moto3 and another in Moto2. A track record that none of his peers can claim on the starting grid but that no one really talks about. This is precisely what Alex Marquez would like to change.
Alex Marquez undoubtedly felt that he must finally emancipate himself from Marc Marquez, with whom he explained the subject since once signing with the team Gresini validated for Ducati GP22 in 2023, he clarified that his eight-time world champion brother had accepted this departure from the fold Honda. A manufacturer he has served for three seasons and within whom he no longer hides his suffering. Between the RC213V and him, it's an impossible story that rests on improbable foundations. The Spanish pilot was struggling in quicksand for a fatal destiny: the engulfment of his career.
A scenario for which a large part of the responsibility lies with Honda, According to a Charles Pernat columnist but also managerEnea Bastianini denouncing : " Honda completely destroyed it » says the ItalianAlex Marquez on GP One. " A rider who won two world titles, one in Moto3 and one in Moto2, can't be that bad. They brought him into the factory team and straight away told him he would ride for the satellite team next year ».
« Alex Marquez was mentally destroyed, it's Honda's fault«
Charles Pernat criticizes the approach during the season Honda for the 2020 season. It destroyed him mentally. They should have done the opposite. It's Honda's fault », Comments the manager. Since moving from the factory team to LCR, Alex Marquez could not claim another podium. He finished the 2021 season as sixteenth and currently occupies the eighteenth position in the drivers' standings.
Charles Pernat don't just charge Honda aboutAlex Marquez he also wonders about the recruitment of a Pol Espargaro who should return to KTM, after two disappointing campaigns: “ it was a risky decision to sign a driver who has won nothing and continues to win nothing. This goes so far that it has already been decided to separate from him he said. Alberto puig will appreciate.
