Luca Marini has emerged as one of Honda’s new leaders for the 2025 MotoGP season, with the team taking a bit of advice from Marc Marquez.
The 28-year-old left VR46 to join Honda When there is a possibility of replacement in 2024 Marquez. It was VR46. of Marini In the year
Marquez gave up the “highest salary” in MotoGP history to leave Honda. For Gresini, because he felt that he had to leave the Japanese manufacturer to show himself that he can still fight at the front of Ducati. His decision led Marquez to join the factory Ducati team in 2025.
Marini in 2010 He had a steady start to his tenure at Honda in 2024 and 2025, but turned the corner in the second half of this year. Joan Mir has two Grand Prix podiums in the last six rounds.
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Everyone at Honda was telling Luca Marini how good Marc Marquez was with his crew.
As Marini confirmed with the 2025 Mir, it didn’t make the same headlines as the P3 in Japan and Malaysia. Yet the half brother of Valentino Rossi He became one of the leaders at Honda because he understood what it took to build a team and helped with whatever task he felt was needed.
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Part of Marini’s thinking comes from his days at the Rossi VR46 Riders Academy, to hit wherever he is wanted by Honda. Marini took advice from Honda’s “everyman” Marquez on how to spend time with his employees to help their relationship.
“This is something I’ve learned through my experience,” he said. MotoMatters. “Also, when I followed Vale, and when I got to HRC and asked people about Mark, they all told me the same thing, they told me this.
Other than the things we know (about Marquez), there are things we don’t know. Everyone told me that, and Vale has always been fantastic on this team.
“To always try to have a good relationship. In the end, Vale stayed with the same team more or less throughout his career. So they were like family in the end.”
Luca Marini is following in the footsteps of Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez.
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Rossi and Marquez have built their crews like family and have remained as loyal to them as possible throughout their MotoGP careers. Marquez took Santi Hernandez and Carlos Lena from the Moto2 team to Honda in 2013 before the rest of his crew joined him in 2014.
Marquez He will not do the same when he joins Gresini in 2024, as contractual obligations ensure that mechanic Javi Ortiz can join him – as the 32-year-old did when he joined Ducati in 2025. Santi Hernandez, Marquez’s former crew chief, now works with Mir.
When he replaces Marquez at the start of the 2024 season, Marini realized that the challenge at Honda was “huge”. And even more than he expected. Now, Marini is following in the footsteps of Rossi and Marquez by trying to become a key pillar at Honda as they rebuild.
