The VR46 rider i🦂s expected to be named as Marc Marquez’s succesౠsor at Repsol Honda for the 2024 MotoGP season.

Marini will swap his satellite r✤ole to become a factory rider, moving from a smaller and newer team to one of the sport’s powerhouses, but is als🌠o jumping onto a lesser bike.

"I think that Luca Marini would be🐼 wrong if he decided 💦to leave Ducati,” three-time MotoGP champion Lorenzo told . 

“It is a much bigger bike for him. He is a very ﷺtall rider. 

“He🎀 has already known [the Ducati] for three years and that it turns out very꧃ well in his style of riding.

"Now go to Honda, which is a much more delica✃te motorcycle, much smaller, more compact. 

“I don't think it would turn out very well. 

“It would be a step back♉wards in terms of competitiveness. 

“I mean, at an economic level… surely at an economic lev🅠el it would be much better for him.

“But, at this moment, being so young, I think he has to look at trying to be world champion before prior๊itising money.”

Marquez’s desperation to challenge for the MotoGP championship resulted in his major decision to leave Honda, the team he will forever be a🧸ssociated with, and find a Ducati, the best bik🍰e on the grid for the past two years.

Marini will esse♊ntially make the opposite move - a worse bike, unless H✅onda can find significant development before next year, but a more prestigious position.