Marco Bezzecchi
Marc Marquez looks set to wrap up his seventh MotoGP title at some point within the next three races.
The Spaniard holds a 175-point lead at the top of the riders’ standings, and there’s a chance that it will be mathematically impossible for his Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia to catch him after the next race in Barcelona.
With eight events left to go this season, there’s a strong chance that Marquez will smash many records along the way, including his consecutive wins streak (10) from 2014.
His MotoGP rivals have been left stunned by his dominance, and must now find a way over the winter to prevent it from happening again in 2026.
One ‘difference’ between Marquez’s Ducati and Honda performances is that it appears he is on a better bike now than he ever has been.
Alex Marquez has seen a big change from Marc and believes that his mindset is even stronger after a horrific crash in Jerez five years ago.
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Marc Marquez is ‘freaking out’ over how good his MotoGP form is at Ducati
MotoGP fans all said the same thing about Marquez recently, after he claimed his eighth pole position of 2025. They believe that he should already be considered the greatest rider of all time.
That doesn’t mean that his rivals are scared of him, though, and Enea Bastianini would like to be racing for Ducati still if he had the opportunity.
His assistant, Jose Luis Carrion, has just revealed to Diario AS how the 32-year-old looks like he’s ‘freaking out’ every time he gets off his bike.
“It gives me the feeling that even he is freaking out how he is doing and how well everything is going,” he said.
“You already know what happens when a pilot is in a state of grace, but I mean in the fluidity, in the strategy, in which everything goes perfectly and I, personally, think that even he is hallucinating.
“Of course I’m hallucinating, but I even saw in his face when the race ended and took off his helmet that he was freaking out.”
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Neil Hodgson tells Marc Marquez why he would be ‘crazy’ to return to Honda in 2027
Although Marquez’s current run of dominance will be most satisfying for him, having completed one of the most heroic comebacks in sporting history, there may be a piece in his puzzle missing.
No matter how much he achieves with Ducati, he always forged his name at Honda, and returning there to win one more title before retirement would be very sweet.
Marquez would be ‘crazy’ to return to Honda for 2027, according to Neil Hodgson, as it would be a gamble ahead of the new regulations.
But all he needs is an average bike at worst to be able to compete for victories and put his name in the hat for one last triumph.
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