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Marquez: Difficult to have a long MotoGP career now

Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez believes the nature of the series now makes long careers unfeasible

Lewis Duncan

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Marc Marquez says “it’s difficult to have a long career” in MotoGP now because the competitive level in the series now is such that maintaining it is harder than before.

Prior to last month’s Catalan Grand Prix, Aleix Espargaro announced that he would be retiring from MotoGP at the end of the 2024 season.

It will bring to an end a grand prix career that began in the 125cc class in 2004, with Espargaro racing in MotoGP consecutively from 2012 to 2024.

Marquez will become the longest-standing rider on the grid next year when he joins the factory Ducati squad, which will mark his 13th campaign in the premier class.

“For me, I think it’s super tricky for the teams,” Marquez said when asked if riders could expect to have careers as long as Espargaro’s.

“Why? Because it looks like in these last years… in the end, the rider makes the difference.

“But it depends a lot on the machine and it looks like the level is super equal.

“So, if you check the lap times you see most of the riders deserve [to be in] MotoGP.

“But in the end, also coming from Moto2 there are riders pushing a lot.

“So, it’s difficult to have a long career. It’s the popular sentence: it’s not difficult to arrive, it’s difficult to keep the level.”

In theory, Marquez – who turns 32 next year – could race on for another decade, with Valentino Rossi retiring in 2021 at the age of 42.

Rossi’s grand prix career began in 1996, with a premier class move coming in 2000.

Rossi’s MotoGP career would go on for another 11 years after winning his last championship, while he wouldn’t score a grand prix victory after 2017.

The MotoGP legend – who now races in the World Endurance Championship’s LMGT3 category – went podiumless in his final campaign on the Petronas SRT Yamaha in 2021.

Marquez has gone without a grand prix win since 2021, but has battled ongoing injury woes and uncompetitive Honda machinery in that time.

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Varnavas HadjiMichael Sr

Jun 20, 2024, 4:07 PM

I was getting concerned about the “reporters” at “Marc Marquez dot com”. They went for 3 days without an article about the fraud.

Because that’s what he is. From the 3 riders he has to challenge, he already knocked 2 out of Ducati! And he didn’t do it by winning that’s for sure. Expect Martin and Enea to get sabotaged directly from Ducati immediately. They need to show that it was because of… Performance that they picked up the problem child 🤣🤣🤣

The fraud will deal (and sabotage) with Pecco next year as he did to Pedrosa.

He’s trying to pull a Honda 2.0 . that’s winning without competition.

And he’s a liar too. He wants to be at Ducati for a decade, he’s just saying this so it would appear more… Impressive 🤣.

Anyway, that’s not a decade I would be watching. And many die hard Ducati fans are leaving the sport already as they see their brand highjacked by the Spanish mafia.

Only marquez trolls would stay and watch. All 7m of them which is about 1.3% of the fans of Cristiano Ronaldo.

As Borat, Ezpeleta’s new partner says: “great success”!

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Varnavas HadjiMichael Sr

Jun 20, 2024, 7:42 PM

So let’s sum up the situation:

1) marquez is Dorna’s favourite GF. They gave him the RCV by changing the rookie rule and now they gave him the factory Ducati. Do you know any other sport that the authority does that?

2) Honda was blackmailed with the Repsol money as Ducati is blackmailed with it’s 8 bike unfair advantage and motoE monopoly.

3) there was nothing wrong with Pedrosa. Marquez admitted sabotaging him. There was nothing wrong with the RCV until last year. Rins won.

4) marquez can’t develop a proper bike and can’t win if he’s not on the best bike and everyone else is sabotaged or punished!

5) this sport destroys careers. Martin, Aleix, Rins and others deserved a fair shot on a the best bike. They never got it.

All the above shows a sport that is destroying itself to accommodate the fraud and his megalomania. But the sport is sold now. New owners take notice I hope.But they aren’t acting fast. By the time they do the sport will have 20 spaniards on junk sponsor-less ducatis and marquez kissing Duncan Lewis in the mouth after a fake title. And no fans watching of course.

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