Mark it in your diaries. Wednesday 4 October 2023 – the day everything changed in MotoGP. Actually, Sunday 19 July 2020 is when the path that led Marc Marquez to his decision to quit Honda for 2024 truly began. Perhaps that’s an oversimplification, but it’s not unreasonable to think that, had he not badly broken his arm three years ago, the events of last week would likely never have come to pass.
Let’s use something a bit more tangible to back this theory up. In August 2021, he told Autosport: “I
