Ramon Forcada admits 89-race star has been a ‘real surprise’ in 2025, ‘I never thought…’

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The 2025 MotoGP season has been dominated by one surname so far, and there hasn’t been much of a challenge otherwise.

Marc Marquez leads the MotoGP riders’ championship by 16 points, but it’s the man in second place who has been the biggest surprise.

Few expected Alex Marquez to be Marc’s closest challenger this year. The younger Spaniard is still yet to take his first win after 89 races.

However, Gresini’s Ducati machine has been performing well so far this year and he managed to be a matter of seconds away from victory in Thailand and Argentina.

Marquez says Alex ‘will win’ in 2025 after seeing how close he has been able to remain throughout the first two events.

Marquez used three words to describe Alex’s chase in Argentina and is struggling to come to terms that his brother is finally able to be near him on pure pace.

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Ramon Forcada says Alex Marquez has been a ‘real surprise’ in 2025

The upcoming Grand Prix of the Americas is a track which six-time champion Marc dominates. He won on six consecutive occasions between 2013 and 2018.

Ex-Honda and Yamaha chief engineer Ramon Forcada admitted to GPOne that seeing Alex perform so well this year has caught him off guard.

“Alex? I see the Marquez brothers as a partnership,” he said. “The little one of the two brothers is the real surprise, but I never thought he’d get a chance to beat his older brother.

“He left room for him so that he could go with him. Then he overtook him and everyone believed that Alex could get ahead, but not them.

“What we saw in Thailand and last Sunday is their partnership against everybody else. And their partnership is winning. But that partnership has a CEO, which is Marc Marquez.”

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Can Marc Marquez win every MotoGP race in 2025 or will Alex stop him?

The law of averages suggests that it should be statistically impossible for Marc to win all 44 races this season, but he’s already nearly 10% of the way there.

By winning both sprints and Grands Prix in Thailand and Argentina, he has sent a reminder to his rivals that he still has the form that once made him so great.

Marquez said sharing the podium with his brother was ‘really special’ but it may cease to be so exciting when they have to fight for victories.

After pressuring Marc into an early mistake in Argentina – the only sign of weakness he has shown this year, Alex has to keep pushing.

With Francesco Bagnaia missing in action, the younger brother may be the only man other than reliability who can stop Marc from winning every race.