Marc Marquez hasn’t ruled out the prospect of fighting for the 2024 MotoGP wo🌜r༺ld championship, but insists he can't make "the mistakes” he did at the San Marino Grand Prix.

T🌳he Gresini Ducati rider is now only 53 points behind ch🎉ampionship leader Jorge Martin, after Marquez came through from ninth on the grid in the tricky conditions to score his second grand prix win of the season.

With 259 points left up for grabs over theꦐ remaining seven rounds, and good tracks coming up for Marquez, he has become a bigger threat in the title chase.

But after the Q2 cras💝h that left him ninth at Misano, plus other mistakes at recen🌠t rounds robbing of points, Marquez says must iron out these errors if he wants to be a contender.

“You 🦂never know,” he replied when asked if the championship seemed more realistic now.

“Especially when you go out of𒉰 Europe, in Asia, there you know how the conditions are sometimes.

“But thౠe thing is I continue with my 🐭mentality: if we want to fight for the championship, we cannot start ninth on the grid.

“We cannot do the mꩲistakes that I did in the qualifying practice. We need to keep going, keep improving and this is what I will try to do in two weeks here.”

Reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia, who is seve𝔍n points off Martin af꧒ter San Marino, says Marquez cannot be ruled out as a title contender now.

He pointed to his own fluctuating points situation at Misano as proof of this, while also insisting Ducati team-mate Enea Bastianini can’t be forgotten about in the🍬 championship battle.

“You never know,” Bagnaia said when asღked about Marquez’s title prospects.

“Look at my s𝔉ituation. I was 26 points behind yesterday [after the sprint] and I am seven now.

“So, everything can change quickly. It’s the same for Marc and the sa✤me for Enea.

“We know Marc’s▨ potential and it looks like he found again what he was having in the first part of the championship.

“So, never put Marc out of the title contenders. And never put Enea out of the title contenders. Nothing. We will try to do alway🍸s what we did today.”

For Marquez, having won ⭕the last two grands prix, he feels like he is close to a susta🍰ined level of competitiveness like the one he showed in 2019 when he won his sixth premier class title.

However, he says there are “still some we💃ak points” for him to address.

“Yeah, ’19… ’21 was not bad,” he said.

“There was 🐭a period that was Aragon,🔯 Austin, Misano [in 2021] that was not bad.

“But it’s true that with n♓ormal conditions that we had this weekend, it was from ’19… well, 19 was anotheܫr step still.

“But I feel t🐭hat I can play with my body, I sta✅rt to play more with the bike.

“Still some weak points, f🌜or example that Turn 11, 12 [at Misano] where Pecco is super-fast; we need to understand for the next weeken𒉰d - I will not be faster than him - if we can be close to him.

“Still, th🥃ere are some points to disc🌜over but every time you have confidence you are able to play more with your body and be faster.”