Francesco Bagnaia has had the worst season of his factory Ducati career in 2025, and the presence of Marc Marquez in the team could be a reason for that.
Marc Marquez was absolutely dominant. During his seventh title-winning campaign in MotoGP. The Spaniard started the season in perfect form and has hardly lost his footing since the start of the season.
Francesco BagnaiaOn the other hand, Borgo Pangale could not repeat the result.
Two-time world champion in Ducati Colors have three wins in all formats in the season, a stark contrast to 25. Marquez He participated in 36 races he competed in.
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In 2025, Francesco Bagnaia, where did all this trouble go?
Comparison between Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia 2025 Grand Prix
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Francesco Bagnaia’s box became ‘very lonely’ after Ducati engineers began to prioritize Marc Marquez.
MotoGP journalist Jack Appleyard recently appeared on Motorsport Republic. Podcast And when asked about the Italian fight in 2025, he detailed the changes he saw in the Bagnaia garage.
He said, “I think Mark’s got this aura about him that journalists and certainly other riders feel about him.
“Bagnaya has been asked about this repeatedly, and he insists that it is not a product of Marc Marquez. It doesn’t matter that he is his team-mate, but he must certainly have an impact.”
“He was the golden boy of Ducati, when he went into the box, after every session, he was Ignatius teeth Waiting to speak to him, waiting to understand what he was saying.
“Then when he came out of the session, suddenly it was very lonely in the Ducati box.
He was sitting, and he had to wait a while for people to come and hear his thoughts because they wanted to hear from Mark first. This obviously has an impact.
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Francesco Bagnaia failed to score in 18 of his 44 races in 2025.
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Luigi Daleigna insists Marc Marquez will not be favored at Peco Bagnaia in 2025.
Despite the obvious changes to Bagnaia’s treatment in the Ducati garages over the weekend, Dali Igna continued the narrative that the Italian rider was treated no differently than Marquez.
The engineer explained that at the peak of the recently concluded season At Ducati ‘everyone’ began to lose patience with Bagnaia For not being able to fix the issues that affected their factory special bikes.
The sad news is that the 28-year-old has yet to try out for the Championship Knights at any point in the season, his debut in the famous red shirt.
in Dale Igna’s final verdict on Bagnaia’s seasonIn 2025, the #63 simply ‘failed’ because of the points that dropped him to fifth place in the MotoGP standings at the conclusion of the season.
The upcoming campaign holds the biggest chance for Bagnaia to continue as a factory Ducati rider. He insists he wants to retire at Borgo Pangale, but given his recent troubles, that’s not a given.
