Alex Marquez shares why he felt ‘invisible’ before joining Gresini MotoGP team

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Alex Marquez has been one of the biggest surprises of the 2025 MotoGP season after finishing second behind his brother in the riders’ standings.

Marquez’s stellar year has helped him earn a factory bike to ride on for 2026, which means he can bypass the chance to hop on the GP25.

Since joining Gresini two years ago, he has found a new lease of life and has come out of the shadow of his brother a little.

Now, he can be considered a genuine MotoGP title contender, and his rivals have begun to take notice of his performances, too.

Neil Hodgson thinks Alex is Marc Marquez’s biggest threat for the future and believes that he’s someone to watch out for.

Marc thinks it would be ‘very difficult’ for Ducati to sign Alex to be a factory rider, given how it could change the relationship between all parties.

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Alex Marquez no longer feels ‘invisible’ since his MotoGP success with Gresini

Marquez agrees with Francesco Bagnaia about Ducati’s 2026 bike and seems to have made similar comments to him about the machine.

It’s positive that he’s on the same page as a two-time champion, and with his brother out injured, that feedback is critical for their new bike.

It’s part of a more encouraging feeling he now has since moving to Gresini and started scoring some significant results. He no longer feels ‘invisible’.

“I feel like I am not invisible anymore! When you don’t make results, then it’s like this, even if it was not a big problem for me,” he told Motorsport Magazine.

“It’s like that question I get often: ‘Which superpower would you like to have?’ ‘Invisibility!’ There have been a lot more interviews, more sponsors and many more things to do.

“In Vertical, we have an agency to measure ‘impact’ and we get the results every three months or so, and you send it to the sponsors. Last year, with Alpinestars, it was something like 300, and this year it’s 1.5 million!”

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Why Alex Marquez deserves more credit for the second half of his 2025 season

Halfway through the campaign, Marquez began to have a little bit of a wobble and showed some signs of struggle on his GP24 bike.

Between the Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary, he finished no higher than 10th in any Grand Prix, on a bike which should have been in a much better position.

In the three races before that, he also retired twice, so it was fair for some to assume that either his form of old had returned or that he was struggling with an injury he had sustained earlier in the year.

But, he picked himself up and finished higher than sixth at each of the remaining eight races, taking two victories and five total podiums along the way.