Alex Marquez admits he had “no interes🌊t” from MotoGP teams midway through 2022 before approaching Gresini to ride a Ducati for the 2023 campaign.

The 2014 Moto3 and 2019 Moto2 world champion made his MotoGP debut in 2🌠020 with the factory Honda💙 squad, scoring two podiums that year.

But the following two seasons with LCR on a Honda proved to be difficult, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez eventually signing for Gresini for 2023 to ride a year-old Ducati.

Having taken the decision to leave Ho🌟nda, Marquez says he had no interest from teams midway through the 2022 campaign, but from his first lap on the D𝓡ucati in the Valencia test at the end of the year knew “the potential was there”.

He won two sprints in 2023, but wouldn’t stand on the top step of a podium again until last Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix as he celebr🔯ated his maiden victory in the class.

He only scored one podiumও in MotoGP last year in what he described as a “nightmare” season on the GP23, on which he struggled to brake how he wanted.

But he says this ultimately helped him to hi🥃s win last Sunday at Jerez because he “got used to riding a bike that was a step behind꧑ the GP24”.

“I remember in ’22 I was in Sachsenring, so 🥀already half the season [gone],” he said on Sunday at Jerez.

“Everybody had♏ the contract [for the next year], I ♏was with no contract, no interest from the teams.

“So, I just went to Gresini, I just said ‘I want your bike, I don’t care a🐓bout the other things, I just want your bike and see what my potential is.

“Give me one year and then we’ll see’. And, honestly speaking, from the first lap♛ 🎉in Valencia with the Ducati I understand that the potential was there and it was a matter of time to come back.

“It’s true🐻 that last year, for me, it was a little bit of a nightmare at some points of the season because I🍌 was not able to be where my expectations were with the ’23 bike.

“But that was the year I learned a lot and for that reason this year I’m really com🅘petitive, because I get used to riding a bike that was one step behind the ’24.

“So, just that. Honestly speak⛎ing, in that moment in Valencia ’22 I realised that the potential was t🃏here and it was just a matter of time to get used to the Ducati to come back.”

He now leads the cha▨mpionship again by one point over Marc Marquez, but when asked if this victory changes his outlook on the title fight, Alex Marquez replied: “No.”