Marco Bezzecchi
Marc Marquez has been delivering some of the best form of his MotoGP career in 2025 so far, and there could be more to come.
Moving to Ducati has been an inspired move, and he entered the summer break with a 120-point championship lead.
Now, Marquez looks set to smash multiple records on his way to an eighth title that he has been waiting over six years to achieve.
No one in MotoGP can stop the Spaniard from dominating, and with 10 races left, the next best chance for anyone else to win will be in 2026.
Ducati didn’t stay true to their ‘brand’ signing Marquez, and signed a champion who had already been through much of his development.
After years of struggles, Marquez still has a ‘winning skill’ and engineers have spent years trying to replicate it on a bike.
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Carlo Pernat ‘failed to consider’ two reasons why Marc Marquez could beat Francesco Bagnaia
Marquez’s dominance ‘must be so hard’ for Francesco Bagnaia to deal with, after being Ducati’s main man for the past few years.
Few expected that he wouldn’t be able to keep up with his teammate at all, causing him to drop down the standings and as low as third on the GP25.
Carlo Pernat has admitted that he failed to assess two key reasons why Marquez could beat Bagnaia, including both physical and mental factors.
“On Bagnaia. Marquez. I said that in my opinion, Bagnaia had a slightly greater advantage between the two because he knew Ducati, educated him for two or three years, the engineers and the team he remained with was always the same,” he said.
“In my opinion, there were all the prerogatives to say something like this. Alas, I failed to consider two things. Marc Marquez’s strength, because I had physical doubts above all, right? Not as much of a phenomenon, what do you want to tell him?
“Anyone who says [Marquez] is not a phenomenon doesn’t understand anything about motorcycles, but we always said in the old days too, the problem is physical. He was in hell, a big hell,” continued Pernat.
“He got out of hell, as he did, only he could do it. He went to purgatory, purgatory was Gresini, then he went to heaven, which is the red Ducati.
“And then beyond that, I thought Bagnaia’s head was much stronger, right? Or at least I thought that Pecco wasn’t suffering that much from the very moment it was officially put to Marquez in the position where he would suffer like that in his head.”
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Why Marc Marquez might opt for more caution in the second half of the 2025 MotoGP season
Having completed the double at five consecutive events before the summer break, Marquez is halfway to equalling his unbelievable streak of wins from 2014.
However, the longer the championship goes on, the more caution he may decide to throw into the wind.
There’s no point risking a serious injury for a few extra points when the title is a foregone conclusion with multiple rounds to go.
The fresher he can be for next year, the better. If he is able to replicate this season’s form in the future, then he will be in the fight for many more titles. It feels inevitable.
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