Francesco Bagnaia will be hoping the new year will be a fresh start after seeing Marc Marquez win the 2025 MotoGP title.
Ducati Renovated their factory line last season, as Marquez Joined. Bagnaya Enea Bastianini on the Bologna shots after seeing George Martin for the chance to replace him. It proved to be a big decision for Ducati and Marquez as he dominated the field in GP25.
But while Marquez won the 2025 MotoGP title in five roundsBagnaya produced his worst campaign since riding for Pramac in the 2020 season. Bagnaia is fifth with 288 points, while Marquez has lost the last four rounds and has 545.
Marquez suffered a season-ending shoulder injury. In the round after lifting his seventh Premier Division title so far. Bagnaia has been unable to carry Ducati in Marquez’s absence, with the Italian winning just one of the last seven Grands Prix in Japan.
Would the factory Ducati team have won the 2025 MotoGP title without Marc Marquez?
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Luca Cadallora names Marco Bezecic as ‘the best’ of 2026 with Marc Marquez for MotoGP fans
Aprilia In the year He took advantage of Marquez’s injury-enforced absence at the end of 2025 to emerge as a leading force before launching a title bid in 2026. Marco Bezecchi In the year He won the last two Grands Prix in 2025 in Portugal and Valencia, which put him in third place in the championship.
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Bezzecchi’s form towards the end of the 2025 season now encourages Luca Cadallora to believe the 27-year-old can challenge Marquez for the 2026 MotoGP title. The Italian feels it would be “great” for MotoGP fans if another team’s rider like Bezzecchi could fight Marquez.
Cadallora said. Moto.itIt’s fun because it ends in a beautiful crescendo with Aprilia and Bezecchi. We at home love to watch a battle in front of the TV, you know? Then maybe we’ll have more fun if it’s two brands rather than riders with the same bike.
“So, why not? Why don’t you hope for a big fight? Marquez (on Bezecchi). Ducati (on Aprilia). It’s great for us fans.”
Marco Bezecchi helped Aprilia build a Ducati-beating bike by 2025.
Yamaha ace Fabio Quartararo remains the most recent rider to challenge for the title on a non-Ducati bike as the Frenchman finishes 17 points shy of Bagnaia in 2022.
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Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia beat Ducati stablemate Martin Pramac in 2023 before losing the Italian to the Spaniard in 2024. Martin joined Aprilia in 2025, but the 27-year-old failed to defend his premiership after injury after injury.
Martin was expected to lead the Aprilia in his first season with the Italian factory, but Bezecchi took his first stint at Nole instead. Bezeci’s effort can be seen as well. Aprilia ends 2025 with the best MotoGP bike. Before teams start focusing on the 2027 rules.
As well as Bezcicci’s victories for the factory Aprilia team in Portugal and Valencia to finish 2025, Trackhouse rider Raul Fernandez won his first MotoGP race in Australia on an RS-GP25. Fernandez finished second behind Bezeci at the Valencia GP by 0.686s.
