Marquez is contracted to Ho♕nda until the end of the 2024 MotoGP season, and as was visible again during last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, the Spaniard is aboard a bike that’s not allowing him to show his full potential. 

The eight-time world champion crashed out of a Grand Prix for the fourth consecutive time, however, Marqu🍰ez has battled for the podium in all three of the races he’s failed to finish so far this season.

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It means Marquez is once again out-perfo♛rming his current bike, but at the same time the margin for error 𒅌has never been smaller. 

Over his injury woe🌠s and back riding somewhere close to his best, Marqu✤ez appears back to his best which is why many see him as a title contender on the right machinery.

In the lead ♔up to the Italian round Marquez alluded to Honda being his Plan A but that 🌞he wants to be part of a winning project no matter the manufacturer. 

What looked like optimism and belief in Honda soon turned to frustration when he crashe𝄹d during Sunday’s race, as the Spaniard stood in gravel open armed as if to send a message to the Japanese brand. 

"Marc doesn’t have the bike to do💫 that. At this moment the Japanese bikes are not that good like in the past for many reasons. 

"They work in a different way and have to change a lot of thing𝓀s inside the structure to really step up like the ✱European manufacturers. To do this takes years and years."

Dovizioso, who was recently inducted into the MotoG🅠P Hall of Fame, ended his career with Yamaha and feels as though Jap✨anese manufacturers have fallen behind those in Europe.

That’s why Marquez’s former rival thinks a switch is needed for the 30-year-old in order to fight for a world title, althouไgh he doesn’t see it being with Duc♋ati.

"That’s impossible. That’s impossi🍃ble because Ducati don’t need Marc. I think that the 🏅only way to win [the title] is to go to a different brand."