The eight-time world champion has been with Honda for his entire MotoGP career, but has elected to quit with a year left on his current contract to join Gresini Ducati in 2024.
Marquez won’t be able to bring any of his crew with him to Gresini aside from tyre technician Javi Ortiz, but says nothing has changed in the atmosphere with his crew in recent races.
“We work in the same way, the same atmosphere,” he said on Friday after ending practice for the Thailand Grand Prix in 11th.
“We are working but we are friends. So, yeah, the atmosphere is the same. I try to do precise comments, I try to push the same on the race track.
“I try to give the comments to the Japanese staff.
“The atmosphere is the same: we are professionals, but it also helps a lot that we are friends.
“And next year we will not work together with some of them, but still we will go for dinner because I can go for dinner with my friends.”
