Marc Marquez joins Francesco Bagnaian at Ducati for the 2025 MotoGP season. The duo form the strongest driving pairing in the premier class.
Ducati He dominated the 2024 season as a team and producer. They won all but one tournament last season Pramak with 203 points.
But it was the Noale-based outfit that won the Riders’ Championship. even if Bagnaya winning 11 races; George Martin He became the first independent team rider to beat the Italian by 10 points.
Bagnaia will come to 2025 MotoGP Martin was the clear favorite for the season following the snub from Ducati after joining Aprilia. The defending champion was prepared for the second factory seat, but the team opted out Marquez.
The 31-year-old enjoyed a fine season as a Ducati rider, finishing third in 2024 with satellite team Gresini. Now factory rider Marquez is in a great position to fight for the championship.
Marc Marquez studies Francesco Bagnaia to understand Ducati’s preparations for 2024.
The general manager of Ducati Luigi D’Aligna says Pramac winning the 2024 title was ‘complex’. As Ducati sponsors pay to be associated with the brand. Therefore, they consider the factory team more important and should have success.
But it has always been Dale Igna’s philosophy to have satellite teams compete for the title. This explains why Ducati share their data with all their riders, because, in Marquez’s words, it’s ‘easier to improve’ that way.
Read more: What Ducati fans told Marc Marquez at the start of the 2025 bike after the previous crash.
The six-time champion moved from Honda to Ducati last year and made an instant impact. Gresini’s employees were surprised at how quickly Marquez learned When everything in the team went to capture three victories and 10 podiums.
Speaking on Ducati’s official YouTube channel, Marquez shared how he learned from Bagnaia to understand the ‘set-up’ in the team.
“Obviously you are looking at the (top) Ducati riders and last year, especially in the first part of the season, I (saw) what Peco and Martin were doing,” he said.
“They were both very fast people, but especially Peco because (he) was in the factory team and (I) tried to understand the structure.
“Then the second part of the season was a different way, a different style because I followed my path more, I started to understand the bike better and then I started to understand better what I needed.
But always[it’s]a good strategy that Ducati has, which is to share all the information with all the riders because it’s easy to improve.
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Marquez ‘tried very hard’ not to claim he was a title contender. In the year Although he says his target is the top three in 2025, the Spaniard will be aiming for a seventh championship with Ducati.
The battle between him and Bagnaya will be on everyone’s mind this season. Marquez will certainly give his team-mate a tougher test than Innea Bastianini did last year.
But Ducati hybrids are playing the competition between them. Peter McLaren says. Andrea Dovizioso ‘changed’ Marquez’s attitude As with Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, the two were never off the track to battle their rivals.
Marquez’s ‘rivalry’ with Bagnaia could very well be similar to that of Dovizioso. But Bagnaia could use Rossi to ‘rip’ into Marquez. For the press if they have drama on or off the track.
Bagnaia says Marquez’s arrival at Ducati ‘is fantastic’. For the team, however, things can go very fast as the two find themselves battling for the championship.
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