AND HERE COMES MARQUEZ ON A DUCATI…

It’s a dream ticket, and a potential nightmare for his rivals, as the eight-time world champion prepares to race for the manufacturer that achieved a record win rate last year

LEWIS DUNCAN

The greatest rider of his generation is now on machinery from the dominant manufacturer. Is Marc Marquez ready to banish his recent struggles for Honda and reclaim his crown? As Orwell once wrote, ‘there’s time for everything except the things worth doing’. In Marquez’s case, the thing worth doing is being competitive again on a MotoGP bike. And time is not something he has infinite amounts of. At 31 years old, Marquez is at least halfway through his MotoGP career, and for the past four seasons he has found himself facing myriad adversity. The badly broken arm in 2020 gave way to a season on the sidelines, and he was injury-plagued in 2021 and 2022, while his massive personal risk to go for a fourth major operation on his arm in 2022…

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Autosport (Digital) - 1 Issue, 07/03/24

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