Marco Bezzecchi
Marc Marquez is well on the right track to becoming the greatest MotoGP rider of all time if he stays with Ducati.
Over the last few seasons, he has rediscovered himself and is back to giving his very best in the premier class. His Honda days are firmly behind him.
Marquez is currently the key player in the MotoGP rider market and should re-sign with his current team ahead of the new regulations in 2027.
The longer he competes, the more likely he is to be tearing down all of Valentino Rossi’s remaining records, which are safe for now, but may not be for long.
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Even the Tifiosi have changed their minds on Marquez and seem to be warming up to him after his successes in 2025. At times, he was still being booed, but not as intensely as in the past.
The ‘numbers’ on Marquez’s 2026 bike look promising, but he still has to ride the bike to the chequered flag safely, as he comes back from a big collarbone injury.
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Marquez hides his true complaints at Ducati and doesn’t like to expose his team in front of the media when struggling.
Instead, he prefers to work on issues behind the scenes, much like a real champion. It has a morale-boosting effect.
But sometimes, his approach to racing on the track isn’t quite as seamless as it is on it. In 2018, he was still relatively young and had a lot to learn.
At the 2018 Argentine Grand Prix, he collided with multiple other riders, including Yamaha’s Rossi, and was also penalised three separate times.
His riding wasn’t to the right standard that day, even though he didn’t admit it at the time. Reflecting on that performance now, he understands where he went wrong.
“That day, I was much faster than everyone, and I had no patience to overtake,” he said in Mat Oxley’s Marc The Magnificent biography. “I created some dangerous situations, and I was penalised for that. I made mistakes, and I learned from those mistakes.”
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How did Marc Marquez perform after his messy 2018 Argentine Grand Prix performance?
After being classified in 18th place in Argentina, Marquez bounced back with three consecutive victories at COTA, Jerez, and Le Mans.
It was a real statement, before another disaster weekend in Mugello brought him back to earth. He couldn’t afford to do what he did in 2015 and make too many mistakes.
By the end of the season, he had suffered two retirements and finished out of the points twice. In every single other race, he ended up on the podium.
He was the deserved champion – his fifth at the time, and it provided a platform for him to produce his greatest effort of all time in 2019.
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