Six-time premier class champion Marc Marquez will race for the Ducati factory team for the 2025 MotoGP season. Marquez received a promotion from Gresini’s satellite team at the expense of eventual world champion Jorge Martin.
Marquez He joined Gresini for the 2024 season, having spent his entire career there since leaving Honda. Despite riding a GP23 bike, he is third on 392 points, 116 behind Pramac. Martin.
With the two-time world champion Francesco Bagnaia It was a shootout between Márquez and Martin for the second seat in the factory team in place of Ennea Bastianini under contract. Although the latter was the leader of the championship when the decision was made, the former holds a special position in the sport.
Martin instead joined Aprilia, where he would compete with Marco Bezecchi. Marquez and Bagnaia form a titanic duo with a combined eight titles at MotoGP level with 103 wins, 107 poles and 198 podiums.
Ducati He hoped to keep the two knights in their age. But both are not prepared to accept anything less than a place on the flag cloth.
Some at Ducati are afraid that Marc Marquez will upset the system established in the team
Speaking on The Race MotoGP podcast, journalist Lewis Duncan raised concerns about Ducati’s flexibility in 2025. Some people in Bologna were ‘very, very interested’ in signing the biggest name on the grid.
However, there were others who made it clear from ‘the beginning’ that they were against Marquez’s announcement. The Spaniard will turn 32 before the start of the season, while Martin will be just 27.
While Márquez’s retirement seems inevitable, the primes have already lost their successor years before they could. Ducati in 2010 He swept the championships in 2024, and perhaps the reform will disrupt the successful formula.
“That’s going to be exciting for me going into next year as well — that dynamic, Mark’s in there upsetting the whole system,” Duncan said. “Obviously there are some aspects of management that are very, very keen to have him there. Others probably weren’t there to begin with.”
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For the inevitable fans surrounding Marquez’s ascension, this creates a rather uncomfortable backdrop. He was fully aware that some members of the team would have preferred to work with Martin.
This will likely go one of two ways – it will rally the team behind it (and give it a permanent unit, which is a very good chance), or the units will grow further apart. Marquez is bidding to match Valentino Rossi’s seven MotoGP titles, second only to Giacomo Agostini.
Another intriguing subplot concerns Bagnaia. The Italian He has been with the team since the start of 2021, winning titles in 2022 and 2023, but it is clear that Marquez’s arrival will threaten his internal position.
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