Marc Marquez will have an all-new crew for his title defence in 2014.

Repsol Honda team principle Livio Suppo is comfortable with Marc Marquez’s new team structure, taking place for 2014.

Despite winning the 2013 MotoGP World Championship as a rookie using the team previously formed by Casey Stoner, Marquez will draft in his crew in which he won the Moto2 title with 12 months prior.

“There is no big change,” Suppo said. “At the end of the day, technicians are linked to the riders and almost all who worked with Marc this season had come to HRC because of Casey. So, riders and mechanics are used to these kinds of things.

“Anyway, we have found good jobs for all of them in HRC – not all in the factory team but, anyway, we are happy, they are happy and Marc is happy to have these new people around him.

“As we have tried to explain, we believe that his [2013] technicians are very good and that they are doing a good job, but once you see the rider so convinced – and of course we believe that the level of the technicians he wants to bring in are good enough – then there is no reason not to have them.”

Former Marquez crew chief Christian Gabbarini and chief mechanic Bruno Leoni will instead turn their attention to developing the Honda RCV1000R Production Racer Project.

“Christian used to be a crew chief, now for next year there is the new RCV1000R project which is a very important project for HRC,” Suppo added. “So, together with Bruno Leoni who was Marc’s chief mechanic, they will be responsible for that new project.”

Marquez made his debut with the new-look team at the Valencia post-season tests, setting the pace across the three days.