Marc Marquez admits he lost the ‘fluidity’ he had on his Ducati MotoGP bike last year.

This ended the Spaniard’s championship run in his first season with the factory. Ducati The team has 11 Grand Prix wins as well as 14 Sprint Race wins.

However, since his return to MotoGP in 2026, Marquez has not been at the time trial or the season opener in Thailand.

Marc Marquez admits he is still not at full fitness 😲 Where do you think he will finish at the Thai Grand Prix?

Marc Marquez is struggling to ‘get fit’ after 2025 injury.

During the interview with Sports worldMárquez admits he is struggling to regain the ‘fluidity’ he has had since his injury at the 2025 Indonesian Grand Prix.

The Spaniard is now looking for a ‘best level’ with the Ducati GP26 to match his level with the Ducati GP25.

Marquez said: “Well, after an injury, you always have to adjust, more or less, change things, find a way to give a little more. After every injury, it’s 100% different. That’s what I’ve learned in my sports life.”

“Sometimes 100% is reduced by 1%, sometimes it is reduced by 10%, which is a big amount for an athlete, but we will try to work in the next few weeks and months to find a good level that allows us to enjoy ourselves on the bike.

“Now, I’m at the level physically to fight for the podium, but I still want to take another step to regain the fluidity I had last year.”

A changing of the guard to start the season or just plain old? 🤔

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Ducati ‘not worried’ about performance levels in 2026

In the same interview, Marquez spoke about his performance at the Chang International Circuit in the first round of the season.

In the year In the 2025 season, Márquez won the MotoGP Sprint Race and the Grand Prix in Thailand, but in 2026 he finished second in the Sprint Race and failed to complete the Grand Prix.

However, Ducati said they were ‘not worried’ by their level of results after the opening races of the year.

Marquez said: “Well, obviously we are worried or we will be more happy, we are not worried, because we are not worried, but more happy, if we had started like last year with pole position and victory in both races.”

That wasn’t the case, but hey, we started second, finished second in the race and would have finished on the podium on Sunday if nothing had happened in those last six laps. So it’s not too bad.