Marc Marquez and Honda at loggerheads, 2023 will be a decisive year. After Emilio Alzamora’s farewell, something seems to have changed in the garage.
Marc Marquez continues to intensify his physical preparation, just over a month from the start of the MotoGP preseason in Malaysia. The conditions of the arm seem to be clearly improving, but it is one thing to train with cardio and another to drive a MotoGP prototype, which forces us to use muscles that we usually don’t use in daily life.
After four operations on the right humerus he goes in search of the best possible condition. He will not be able to return to the normality prior to the Jerez 2020 injury, too many mistakes have been made, especially from a medical point of view. Seeing him do push-ups after the first surgery, a few days after the operation, reminds many of their responsibilities. Who should have stopped the eight-time world champion and prevented him from taking to the track?
Marc Marquez and the KTM track
2022 has been a year of change for Marc Marquez: moved from Cervera to Madrid, faced a second case of diplopia a few months after the previous one, the fourth operation, changed the historic manager Emilio Alzamora replaced by the younger and more enterprising Jaime Martinez, head of communication at Red Bull. But what is behind the divorce from the former Spanish pilot who has followed him since childhood, allowing him to sign millionaire contracts and find golden sponsorships?
Initially there was talk of a revaluation of the image of the Catalan champion, but perhaps there is more. According to the manager Charles Pernat, who spoke on the Sportaction / Paddock TV show, there would also be a hand in Honda. “In that moment of chaos, Emilio got in the way. At a certain moment, Honda no longer accepted and suggested Marc to get the manager out of the way“. At stake are million-dollar contracts that risked skipping, but it is true that 2023 will be a decisive year for his fate.
It’s no secret that if HRC doesn’t make one available to him RC213V winner their paths could part. At that point there would be only one possible alternative way: KTMwith the mediation of the big sponsor Red Bull, who will have to put a part of the salary into it. Even if the Cervera phenomenon has to lose something from an economic point of view. It is no coincidence that the Mattighofen-based company wanted to strengthen its management and engineering department by taking on Fabiano Sterlacchini, Francesco Guidotti, Christian Pupulin and Alberto Giribuola. The ground for the arrival of the champion, in case of need, seems almost cleared.
