It’s been over 1,000 days and nearly 3 years since Marc Marquez final stood on the highest step of the rostrum at a MotoGP race, through the 2021 Emilia Romagna (Misano) spherical.
The long-awaited sixtieth MotoGP victory is the final actual milestone lacking from Marquez’s revival season at Gresini Ducati, which has produced three runner-up finishes up to now, two of them by lower than half a second.
One other potential likelihood slipped away on Sunday in Austria, a weekend Marquez labelled as “the most effective”.
The eight-time world champion certified on the entrance row however was pressured to start out with out his entrance ride-height machine engaged, then tangled with Franco Morbidelli at Flip 1 and ultimately salvaged fourth.
However with a manufacturing unit Ducati contract already in his pocket for the 2025 and 2026 seasons, Marquez insists this yr is for ‘constructing’ and that victory ‘will arrive’ subsequent yr.
“For me, it would not matter,” Marquez stated of his ongoing win drought. “I do know that this yr is a yr to construct and I am constructing.
“I attempted to go step-by-step. It’s true that we began [the season] so good, [then] it seems to be like we did step again and now seems to be like we come again once more.
“On this second a part of the season we have to preserve constructing and attempt to be on the podiums.
“And the victory – if it isn’t this yr, subsequent yr it would arrive.”
Marquez averaged eight wins a season for Repsol Honda from his 2013 MotoGP debut till his arm fracture at Jerez 2020.
He took his ultimate three wins on an RC213V through the 2021 marketing campaign on the Sachsenring, COTA and Misano.
Marquez is at present fourth on the planet championship however 5 locations forward of the next-best GP23 rider.
