OPINION: Not for a long time has a MotoGP test day been highly anticipated, as the futures of both Fabio Quartararo and Marc Marquez were long thought to have hinged on what their respective manufacturer brought to Misano. The outlook wasn\u2019t positive for either. What happens now?
Over the course of the San Marino weekend, Marquez's future dominated headlines. As the Misano test signalled a pivotal point in what he does for 2024, he was heavily and continually linked to a shock Gresini Ducati switch. Some confidently wrote the deal was done, others think it's ever more likely after Monday's test.
On that, he was left disappointed. Honda brought its first 2024 prototype to the Misano test, but it was mainly just a new chassis. The engine was much the same as the one he has been racing this season. While 14th on the timesheets means absolutely nothing at the Misano test, as Quartararo will later explain, Marquez's comments did nothing to suggest that the outlook for his future with Honda was any better.
However, as Motorsport.com's Spanish colleague Oriol Puigdemont wrote last week, what Marquez wants from Honda to keep him around in 2024 was never going to come on the track in the Misano test. He has tasked team boss Alberto Puig to go on a recruitment drive for engineers, ideally those with a more open European mentality that has served Ducati, Aprilia and KTM so well of late.
Quartararo is in a similar situation to Marquez, though there is no doubting that the Frenchman will be on the Yamaha in 2024. With that, at least, it has kept some focus on the task at hand – even if he has repeatedly echoed Marquez's push for his factory to stop talking and deliver what it has long promised.
Speed trap figures were fairly kind on Quartararo at the test, in which he was sixth overall. But he was still some 5km/h down on the fastest Ducati and genuinely struggled to find any positives from the various new parts he tried:"When I tried the 2023 bike, I think it was the first time where I felt the engine was a little bit better. But today I didn't feel it".
"Of course we are in a tough moment but I have to stay polite. We both want the same thing. Of course, it's difficult, but I prefer to stay calmer""I think last year we went wrong also in this area, that every time you go out, every bike is turning [laps], [there is lots of] Michelin rubber. And it's a track where you spin a lot. So, you leave a lot of the tyre [on track]. If you go to Turn 3 now, it's black.
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