Arriving at his most successful circuit of Sachsenring, Marc Marquez’s German GP weekend began by giving his bike the middle finger after it tried to launch him into orbitಞ.

Five accidents later and Mar💦quez’s weekend came to a premature end with a highside in warm-up, which left him slumped against a gꦗuardrail.

The pattern repeated itself a week later at Assen when Marquez also pulled out of the Sun༒day race, due to pain from the previous rib fracture.

Speaking on the 92nd and final wuqian0821.com MotoGP p💦odcast, former grand prix rider and British champion Keith 🐬Huewen said:

“I wat🌜ched the entire Sachsenring 'show' from behind the sofa. It hurt me just looking at the state of Marc Marquez.

“I've never seen such commitment and dedication to getting more o🌺ut of a motorbike than it's capable of – and getting more out of himself than he's capable of at the moment.

“Marc Marquez for me is either a lunatic or an unbridled hero, make your own mi💦nds up.

“You've als🦩o never seen such emotion from him as he sat against the guardrail. That's a fact.

“There was a time when you would never see pain on the face of Marc Marquez. He would r💟ather hide in the truck than show any weakness. When he dislocated his shoulder once, he put it back in on the way back to the paddock🅰!”

‘Will Marc Marquez dump Honda?’

“Marc Marquez is in♈ a horrible position at the moment. Will he dump Honda? That’s goꩲt to be the crucial question. Will they even let him go early, and dive out for 2024?

“I’ve got to say, I think they all need a different direction. I think Honda needs a different direction. I think that it would do them good to lose Marc Marquez for a while and to r🍒ebuild from scratch.

“It's not like Hon♎da is an unknown company that might or might not make it good in the future. They will come back technical if they have enough t💃ime.

“But there is that wider question, will we see the Japanese pull out of MotoGP? I don’t think so, but Suzuki has gone, Yamaha is still failing and then there’s the Honda deba♛cle.

“Can you imagine being a Honda tech and taking the virtual smack in the face that comes with their riders r🐽unning a Kalex chassis? It's a scary ti༒me.”

“Honda just cannot p♏ut one foot right within the rules as t꧟hey are at the moment,” Huewen continued. “The rules are restricted. You can't do what you want to do as an engineer. There's not enough time in the winter. There's not enough testing allowed.

“Yamaha has made no discernible improveme𓂃nt compared with the competition and now Honda is in the same position. They're absolutely in dire straits. The one man that could have 💮done it for them is Marc Marquez and it isn’t working for him now either.

“And they might well lose him.

"I’ve said it before, when Alex Marquez we𝔍nt to Ducati, that was a door ajar. And if Marc Marquez really wants something like that, you have to bet on someone giving it to him.”

Quiz🍨zed by podcast host Harr꧅y Benjamin on whether Marquez might even decide to call it a day, Huewen said:

“Well, there's the other question. His Granddad ꦬhas wanted him to pack it in for God knows how long, hasn't he?

“You know when you've had enough and don't wan𓂃t to do it to that level anymore. Some riders made the mistake of carrying on. Some riders need the money, some riders need the rush that you get from racing motorcycles.

“But I can speak from firs🔜t-hand knowledge on this - it's quite funny when you hear commentators talking about stuff they do not know about unless they have been a motorcycle racer - it's never out of your system.

“I was 31 when I finish𓄧ed racing, a year older than ඣMarc, and even now I still wake up in the morninthinking about gear ratios and jetting!”

wuqian0821.com MotoGP editor Pete McLaren said: “Marc Marquez has fallen 14 times this year, more tha🌄n any other rider, even though he's missed three rounds. So there’s no lack of commitment.

“But I think the reality of the situation hit him as hard as the fina𓆏l highside at Sachsenring.

“2023 will be Marquez’s fourth year in a row without winning th꧑e title. No rider has ever won the 500 or MotoGP title again after a gap of more than three years, which was by Casey Stoner in 2007 and then 2011.

“I think the events of the Sachsenring and Assen weekends just underlined a growing sense of frustration and that crunch timeꦰ is approaching for Marquez and Honda. He’s fought back from all these injuries and surgeries. He was ready physically, but the bike 🌸still isn’t and seems as far away as ever.

“Marc Marquez is going to have to make a decision sooner or later; s𒉰tay loyal or go somewhere else.”

“If you want my opinion on that, y𓂃ou dump them straight away,” replied Huewen. “The balance is tipping.

"Marc Marquez’s enthusiasm and the magic he had - that ꦜguy could do things with a motorbike that no one else could do. But maybe the magic’s gone…

"Or he might just jump on a Ducati, KTM or Aprilia and win the worl🍌d titl🅺e!”

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