Marco Bezzecchi
Marc Marquez was in a league of his own during the 2025 MotoGP season, leading his former manager to highlight what is wrong with the current era of Grand Prix motorcycle racing’s premier class.
Atop factory Ducati machinery, no one on the grid had an answer to Marc Marquez during his seventh title-winning campaign in MotoGP.
The Spaniard won a staggering 25 races across all formats in 2025 as he clinched the championship with five rounds remaining, ending the season with a 78-point advantage over second-place despite missing the final four rounds of the term.
The most astonishing detail comes in the form of Francesco Bagnaia’s inability to replicate his Ducati counterpart’s results on equal bikes, which served as one of the biggest shocks of the season, given his recent form of challenging for a title in the four seasons that preceded 2025.
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Marc Marquez’s former manager highlights how MotoGP engineers are the ‘most important thing’ in MotoGP
During a recent interview with Diario AS, Emilio Alzamora, Marquez’s former manager, was asked several questions about his former client’s rise to the top in MotoGP, as well as referencing the current problem that the premier class has with rider competitiveness.
He said, “Currently, looking at the current grid, the reality is that what we see is the sum of its parts. In the end, it’s rider and machine, rider and bike, and above all, the result of the work carried out by the technical team and the engineers.
“That’s almost the most important thing in MotoGP these days. Right now, the reality is that Marc has a combination, a partnership, that is unbeatable.
“The Ducati is proving to be a super competitive bike; there are two factory bikes and the satellite bikes on the grid, which are practically at the same level.
“And the other manufacturers aren’t at that same level yet. But this doesn’t take away from Marc’s merit in the slightest, because it’s crystal clear that Marc makes the difference as a rider.”
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Emilio Alzamora’s verdict is spot-on; riders can’t make a difference with their talents in the current landscape of MotoGP
As previously alluded to, Bagnaia is a prime example of Alzamora’s verdict. Fabio Quartararo is another.
It was clear that Ducati’s 2025-spec factory bike wasn’t suited to the riding style that Bagnaia enjoys, and his results suffered accordingly.
On the other hand, Quartararo displayed his talents through his impressive one-lap pace, but the calibre of Yamaha’s M1 bike made him vulnerable in racing conditions, and he often found himself going backwards once the lights dropped.
The Frenchman secured five pole positions during 2025, the same number of poles that he clinched during his 2021 title-winning season, but was unable to translate them into anything, with just one podium finish coming his way throughout the term.
Quartararo developed a reputation for only being fast over one lap, much to his annoyance.
It’s clear that he has the talent to claim wins on a consistent basis, but the machinery that he races atop fails to give him an ample opportunity.
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