Marc Márquez joins Gresini’s MotoGP team this year, where he will ride a Ducati after a decade with Honda. Therefore, he acknowledges that he will need to adjust to a different bike, and that will take time.
However, Stefan Bradl – who continues with Honda as a test rider – told SPEEDWEEK.com that he expects the six-time champion to adapt and begin using the required riding style quickly: ‘All MotoGP riders are at such a high level that they can quickly adapt to a bike from another manufacturer. This also applies to Marc. He will soon use Ducati’s style’.
This was part of the German’s response to a question about being the oldest Honda rider at the moment, to which he also replied: ‘MotoGP has changed so much that you can no longer make a big difference as a rider due to all the technical gimmicks that have been added. […]. I am just a small part of Honda’s MotoGP system. I provide my impressions, my feelings about the bike. This is my job, which I do as best as I can – and apparently not too badly, otherwise I wouldn’t be in my seventh year. Implementing changes is the job of the engineers. Marc also understood that at Honda: it’s not the rider’s job to demand a softer or more flexible swingarm here and less there’.