Eleven years are not left behind as if nothing had happened. Eleven years, a third of Marc Márquez’s life (30), three quarters of his World Cup career, leave an indelible mark. This Sunday, November 26, in Cheste, the Cervera rider says goodbye to Honda, the factory with which he has triumphed in MotoGP – and has also experienced his saddest days of his last era -, and to the group of people with whom he has grown, the Repsol Honda Team.
He said “see you soon”, not “goodbye”, to them in an emotional video that the multi-time champion posted on his social networks.
In 1 minute and 27 seconds, with the voice-over of Márquez himself, the Catalan pilot summarizes the emotions on the day of his farewell. “Today is probably one of the most difficult Sundays of my life. I don’t have anything at stake. The least important thing is how the race ends. The routine will be the same. But today there is something different, I have a strange feeling: today is the closing of a very special time in my life. “I don’t know if I will wear these Repsol Honda Team colors again,” Marc says as he gets up in the morning in his motorhome and greets the members of his team one by one.
Márquez, emotional, with a broken voice, avoids referring to a definitive goodbye to what has been his family. As if he left the door open to return to them, either in Honda or in some other team (KTM?) After his time at Ducati Gresini in 2024.
“I don’t know if I’ll see them again, all of them, when I get into the truck again,” he says excitedly. “And I don’t know if I will wear this jumpsuit again, I know by heart where each of the logos are. Despite everything, for me it is not a day of goodbye, it is a day of see you soon.”
To finish, the 93 sends a direct message to his team: “Repsol Honda Team, I will not get tired of repeating it: you have been, you are and you will always be my family. Let’s enjoy the last party.”
In these 11 seasons in MotoGP with the Repsol Honda Team, Marc Márquez has won 6 titles, with the crown already in the first year (2013), breaking precocity records. He chained two championships (2013-14), and after Jorge Lorenzo’s title break (2015; he was 3rd), he achieved four more titles in a row (2016-19). His victorious stage in 2020, the pandemic World Cup, was cut short with the serious accident he suffered in Jerez in July, the beginning of his nightmare that has lasted four years (2020 he barely ran, in 2021 he was 7th, in 2022, 13th and this 2023, 13th).
In these 11 courses, Marc has achieved 59 victories and 101 podiums in 169 races, 64 pole positions, and 59 race best laps.
