Marco Bezzecchi
Fabio Di Giannantonio thinks it will be a “big moment” for MotoGP when Ducati rider Marc Marquez wins the 2025 championship with the title now up for grabs in Japan.
This week’s Japanese Grand Prix is the earliest that Marquez can win the 2025 MotoGP title, as the Ducati pilot only needs to increase his 182-point lead to 185 points across the Motegi event. He cannot take the title in Saturday’s Sprint, but he can at any stage of Sunday’s race.
Alex Marquez of Gresini has done enough to delay his elder brother’s coronation as a seven-time MotoGP champion and nine-time world champion until Sunday’s Japanese GP. But the 29-year-old has a near-impossible job to deny Marc Marquez the title without any mistakes.
Marc has been in a class of his own throughout much of the 2025 MotoGP season since the Spaniard joined the factory Ducati team from Gresini. The 32-year-old has also scored more than double the total of points that his teammate Francesco Bagnaia has, with 512 to 237.
Marc Marquez winning 78% of all MotoGP races in 2025 astounds Fabio Di Giannantonio
Now, it is only a matter of time before Marquez wins his first MotoGP title for Ducati, having won all of his previous championships with Honda. It will also see Marquez match Valentino Rossi as a seven-time MotoGP champion and nine-time world champion once the title is his.
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Di Giannantonio is “pretty sure” that Marquez will win the 2025 title in Japan, which he feels will be huge for MotoGP. The VR46 star admires how the Cervera native has returned to the top since he almost retired owing to the injury he sustained in the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix.
But Marquez has especially astounded Di Giannantonio this term by winning 11 Grands Prix and 14 Sprint Races through the first 16 rounds. Marquez has taken 78% of all possible wins since joining Ducati and riding the same works-spec Desmosedici GP25 as Di Giannantonio.
Di Giannantonio said, via quotes by SPEEDWEEK: “He’s doing an incredible job. He’s won more or less 80 per cent of the races this season.
“Since joining Ducati, he’s been riding incredibly, even last year when he had the 2023 bike. He’s made a great comeback as a sportsman. I’m pretty sure he can win the title here. It will be a big moment for the sport.”
Marc Marquez learned from his early mistakes to dominate the 2025 MotoGP season
Marquez’s win tally could also be greater without the mistakes he made early in the season, which ultimately helped the Spaniard to change his mindset and dominate to the extent he has. After winning just three of the first seven Grands Prix, he has won eight of the last nine.
Ducati saw Marquez crash in a comfortable lead of the Americas Grand Prix in round three, and crash while fighting for the lead of the Spanish GP in round five before he recovered to P12. Marc Marquez’s crash at Jerez preceded Alex Marquez winning his first MotoGP race.
Marquez chose the wrong tyres for the dry-wet French Grand Prix, yet he still secured P2 at Le Mans in round six, as well. A shaky showing at Silverstone when Marquez crashed during the British GP before the race was restarted was the last time he blundered in a Grand Prix.
He even produced an unbeaten run of eight Sprint and seven Grand Prix wins, before Marc accepted finishing second behind Alex Marquez in the Catalan GP instead of risking a crash in Barcelona. But Marquez crashed after taking the lead of the Misano Sprint last time out.
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