The 2023 MotoGP World Championship wasn’t without its moments of controversy, particularly in the closing stages of an intense eight GPs in ten weeks that completed the season.
Upon announcing his departure, Marc Marquez said: “Honda will come back to the top, with me or without me. But they need time. Athletes don't have time.”
With the 2024 pre-season MotoGP testing now only a few weeks away, Marc Marquez has reflected on his Gresini Ducati debut and plans for the upcoming outing in Malaysia and Qatar.
Although Brad Binder was KTM’s best rider in 2023, that didn’t stop the Austrian manufacturer from crediting Jack Miller for their improved MotoGP form.
Fabio di Giannantonio began the Valencia season finale with a debut MotoGP victory under his belt from Qatar but still didn’t know if he had a job for 2024.
Among the last pieces of advice Marc Marquez gave to Honda before departing for Gresini Ducati was the need to increase engine performance if the RC213V is to fight for a MotoGP title again.
It’s not what the likes of Marc Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi will want to hear, but Gigi Dall’Igna predicts a bigger difference between the factory and year-old Ducatis for the 2024 MotoGP season.
Aleix Espargaro might be the oldest rider on the MotoGP grid and has never hidden his opposition to the ever-increasing calendar, but that doesn’t mean he intends to bow out at the end of 2024.
Enea Bastianini posted one of the surprises of the MotoGP season when, having failed to break the top six all year, he romped to victory in the Malaysian MotoGP.
Although Fabio Quartararo felt Yamaha delivered some ‘really positive’ aero updates at the Valencia MotoGP test, he warned ‘we are still very far from the top guys’.