Marc Marquez has made a habit of crushing his teammates in MotoGP. It is one indication of his greatness.
As a rookie, Marquez fought with Honda rider Dani Pedrosa and Yamaha George Lorenzo Until the final race for the title, where he won. But Pedrosa struggled to get close after that.
In the remaining five seasons as a partnership, Marquez He surpassed Pedrosa by an average of 111 points. Three-time MotoGP champion Lorenzo joined in 2019, but the #93 fell into midfield as he moved to the title.
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Marquez recently defeated Francesco Bagnaia by 257 points despite missing the last four rounds due to injury. In the hands of the Spaniard, the Ducati GP25 looked like one of the best bikes ever, but it was extremely inconsistent in Bagnaia.
Jorge Lorenzo could not compete with Marc Marquez’s ‘confidence’ in Honda
to speak DAZN Earlier this year, Lorenzo said there was a bit of ‘tension’ in the Honda garage in 2019 because the two drivers were not in direct competition. That partnership promised fireworks but became a footnote in the history books.
Lorenzo studied Marquez’s telemetry and tried to use similar techniques to close the gap, but simply lacked the same ‘understanding’. Honda.
Bagnaya In 2025, Márquez said he could be faster on a ‘Tractor’, which suggests there is little point in repeating his riding style.
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Lorenzo said: “My relationship with Mark in 2019 was very different from when we were not teammates for five or six years. “Especially in 2019.
“I knocked him off the track at that corner in Jerez. I had a lot of complaints in the press about his driving style. There was a lot of tension.
He was in top form, had a great season, and I was a lot slower than him. So that makes the relationship better, because he doesn’t see the other rider as a big threat.
“I couldn’t get close to Mark. I tried to look at his telemetry, I tried to copy him as much as possible, but it wasn’t impossible. He had faith in that Honda and he understood it well… I tried to do the same thing, but it wasn’t possible.”
Jorge Lorenzo thinks he could have won a fourth championship in the 2020s
Lorenzo knows he has a problem with Honda From the first test. He felt relatively comfortable on the 2018 bike but felt the 2019 model was a step in the wrong direction.
A serious injury at Assen, combined with his poor overall performance, prompted his retirement at the end of the year.
however, Lorenzo thinks he could have won another title If Marquez stays with Ducati when he is injured.
Andrea Dovizioso was Marquez’s closest rival at the end of the decade when the Borgo Panigale outfit started as a formidable force.
