MotoGP, Puig: "I know what Marquez has been through. The 2025 title would be a sporting achievement."

The past few years spent with Honda have been full of trials and tribulations for Marc Marquez and the crash at Jerez in 2020 certainly marked a before and an after watershed. Unable to return to his winning ways as he once did because of issues related to the injury to his right arm, the rider from Cervera only began to revive after leaving the team that had raised and consecrated him in MotoGP to take on a Ducati-branded challenge.

It is a return to life that Alberto Puig, HRC's longtime team manager, feels in part as his own and his team's. "He had a lot of difficulties with his arm and whoever was there at the time was aware of that. I know what he was going through and even more so in light of the fact that he was a world champion. Together we tried to help him believe he could do it and in the end he succeeded," were his words as reported by Marca.

"What he has been able to accomplish is an achievement in itself, but to win the 2025 World Championship, which is not easy as there are so many good riders, would be a truly global sporting feat. In the end he was absent from the top positions for four to five years because of injuries and everything else, so to triumph again, by the way, at an advanced age would be incredible. This kind of person is really special," he added, extolling the abilities of his former protégé.

Finally, turning to the present regarding his HRC box and the slow progress of the RC213V he revealed, "We still have to figure out what we are missing. For the moment we have not been able to identify it. As soon as we find it I think the results on the track will show. We are trying everything, without focusing on a specific area because so many things are not working. In short, we are working on every part."