Torak Razgatlioglu says Marc Marquez ‘changed’ after joining Ducati.

Márquez emphatically won his seventh premier-class title last season, winning 11 of 18 Grands Prix and starting a five-race run to the crown.

Marc Marquez never came back from a deficit greater than 37 points

Now 44 years old, the gap with Marco Bezecchi, is his title hopes over?

Torak Razgatlioglu said that Marc Marquez is not as ‘aggressive’

In an interview with Moto ITPramac debutant Razgatlioglu was asked about his perception of MotoGP’s top riders after his departure from World Superbikes. Its main transport equipment is far superior to that of the Yamaha, which is currently the slowest bike on the grid.

But with Marquez on the road, the Spaniard is now much less ‘aggressive’, reinforcing his theory. He only received three DNFs in 36 starts last year, and one of those (the season jam with Marco Bezecchi in Indonesia) wasn’t his fault.

Marquez knows that it is not like ‘explosive’ As once, but he talked about learning to manage risks. He crashed a total of 14 times last season, fewer than 11 riders.

“It’s not easy for me to understand,” Razgatlioglu said. “I follow Marc, Alex Marquez, Fabio (Quatararo) and many others. What I see is that their bike turns better, grips better, brakes better and gets out of corners faster.

Do you agree with Torak Razgatlioglu’s analysis of Marc Marquez?

“In certain sectors, I am fast, I am strong, but in others it is impossible to keep up with them because the handling and behavior of the bike is completely different. I only struggle on half the track, on the other half they are completely out of control because the bike works better. But I don’t see any absurd difference.

“Ducati is Ducati, and Marquez is a special rider, but he has also changed his style in the last two years: he rides more calmly, he understands how the bike works.

Is Marc Marquez going back to bad habits on the 2026 Ducati?

Marquez has already fallen five times At this time. If the current risk rate continues, it will reach nearly 30 by the end of the year.

The world champion is still not fully comfortable on the Ducati GP26 and the consensus is that he is out of shape after shoulder surgery last autumn.

Maybe Marquez is trying to compensate by pushing beyond the limit, a weakness that Honda has occasionally shown.

The 33-year-old crashed out of second place at the Spanish GP last weekend and found himself penalized for his over-ambition in the sprint against Fabio Di Gianntonio in the United States.

These mistakes hampered Márquez’s damage limitation efforts at the start of the year, while Bezzecchi and Aprilia are currently on MotoGP benchmarks.