MotoGP News: Marquez’ first Gresini Ducati revealed

The Gresini MotoGP team has revealed the livery Marc Marquez will race with for the 2024 MotoGP World Championship season.

After 11 years, Marquez left Repsol Honda for the Gresini Racing Ducati team because he got tired crashing trying to keep pace with the Ducati’s superior HP.

Instead, Marquez will team up with his brother Alex at the satellite Ducati outfit where the pair will ride one-year old GP23 Ducatis.

Marc Marquez’s bike will feature his trademark #93 on the fairing in its usual font and color, while brother and team-mate Alex Marquez’s #73 is now blue rather than white.

Bothers Marc Marquez and Alex Marquez pose with their Gresini Ducati Desmosedicis and team owner Nadia Padovani. Image: Supplied by Gresini Racing

Gresini continues to field year-old Desmosedicis this year and, although it now fields riders who boast a total of 10 world championships, there remains no title sponsor.

Nevertheless, there is much excitement about the impact which Marc Marquez will make on the motorcycle which was the benchmark in MotoGP in 2023.

“Of course, it’s a new chapter, especially in my career,” he said.

“The project is exciting and motivation is super high, but I also feel especially calm.

“I made a very important decision. I chose a way, and we will see whether it’s the good one or not in the future, but the project is to try to find again that motivation and that racing spirit in the races, and fight for a good position.”

“I’m like a child with new shoes, as we say in Spain,” he added as part of the launch.

“I won a lot but the last three to four years have been hard for me. Having fun again on the bike [was my priority] and Gresini was the only one that waited for me.

“Let’s have an amazing year, but ‘if you eat too fast, you don’t feel well’… The expectation is high but I know I have to work tirelessly to do what we can do.”