Alberto Puig ‘never understood’ something he read about Marc Marquez before the 2025 MotoGP season

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With the exception of two mistakes, Marc Marquez has been sensational during the 2025 MotoGP season.

Moving to Ducati over the winter has been an inspired move, and has propelled him into contention for a record seventh MotoGP riders’ championship, which would make him the oldest winner of all time (32).

Marquez needs to find more consistency after dropping nearly 50 points with mistakes at the Grand Prix of Spain and in Qatar.

However, there’s a strong indication that he has a comfortable edge over his opponents when he keeps his bike on track. Surprisingly, his brother appears to be his strongest on a one-year-old bike.

MotoGP fans say Francesco Bagnaia caused Marquez’s crash by putting pressure on him for the first time this season.

Bagnaia admitted a ‘big limitation’ in traffic, which has held him back and doesn’t look like it can be fixed anytime soon. It makes Marc’s life even easier for now.

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Alberto Puig ‘never understood’ why people didn’t expect Marc Marquez to dominate MotoGP in 2025

Marquez spent two days thinking about his Austin crash and may spend even longer reflecting on crashing out of his home race.

Fortunately, his brother won, which came as a slight consolation. He has still won eight of the 10 races on offer so far this year.

Teammate Bagnaia hasn’t been able to challenge him on a level playing field, and is yet to beat him in a race which he makes it to the flag unaffected.

Alberto Puig has now said that he couldn’t understand why people didn’t expect Marquez wouldn’t be able to be very destructive in 2025.

“I honestly had never been asked this, because I don’t do many interviews, but in winter I was watching everything people said and I never understood how someone didn’t come to think that when you ride the best rider there is, with the best bike that exists, the result is this, what we are seeing,” he told DAZN.

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Is Marc Marquez still the favourite for the 2025 MotoGP title?

For the second time this season, Marquez relinquished the championship lead to his brother and now trails by just one point.

If he can continue to perform at the level he has without mistakes, he will walk the championship. No one can get close to him.

But as has been the case in the past, he is often his biggest enemy. There’s no need to push so hard early in races when he is so good at the end on worn tyres.

In other words, if he continues to be accident-prone, his brother has to be considered an equal favourite for major honours.