Alex Marquez was ‘losing his way’ as he tried to copy his brother Marc Marquez as his Gresini team-mate, team boss Nadia Padovani said.
After a difficult time with Honda Alex Marquez After converting to he was finding his feet in MotoGP. Ducati Bicycles by Gresini. But in 2024, he faces an almighty challenge: his brother across the garage.
Mark Marquez He joined the team after completing an impressive spell at Honda in search of the fastest bike on the grid. With the help of his brother, he switched to Ducati machinery and immediately entered the pits.
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Cervera’s Ant left his brother in Gresini to finish third in the 2024 championship, while Alex Marquez finished eighth. It was his best finish at the time, but he was struggling when trying to copy his teammate.
Alex Marquez says sharing the grid with Marc Marquez ‘is a pain’.He has been under pressure to match his brother’s achievements. As teammates at Gresini, the 30-year-old realized he had to go his own way.
Alex Marquez at Gresini realized that he had to stop ‘imitating’ Marc Marquez
Gresini boss Padovani They remember the brothers as teammates Mig Babylon. She remembers how Alex Marquez got lost trying to be like Mark, until he realized he had to do things his own way.
“Having both brothers on board was really important to the team,” Padovani said. “Yes, the team has grown because Mark is an incredible professional, and he has been since day one.
“That’s when we saw him riding with us when we did the tests in Valencia in 23. When he got into the pit, he started talking about what he felt and what he didn’t feel. I mean, you can tell when someone is giving you a very professional, intelligent and incredible opinion.
“And having him with us with Alex was really important, because Alex obviously felt the pressure from Mark, even though it’s his brother.
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“Indeed, he felt that he was losing his way at some point because he was trying to imitate, that is, he was looking for things that his brother (had) was not comfortable with.”
“So Alex paused and said, ‘You’ve got to do this for yourself; you’ve got to set the bike up to your riding style.’
“He began to see what Mark had to say, to listen to him, and then to learn, and instead of imitating him, he found his own way.
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This new approach looks set to help Alex Marquez when Marc Marquez moves to the factory Ducati team in 2025. He suddenly found himself with a pack that could win races, and that’s exactly what he did, catching three all season.
Alex says he ‘wasn’t ready’ to fight Mark. For last year’s title. He finished P2 behind his brother, marking his best finish in MotoGP to date and the first time two brothers have finished first and second in the championship.
In the year In 2026, Gresini’s driver is looking to continue building, and after a rocky start he’s starting to get somewhere. Alex Marquez won the Spanish Grand PrixWhile his brother is struggling with injuries from an accident in Mandalika in 2025.
Alex was surprised by Mark’s information It was slow on the left-hand corners of Jerez. It’s still early days, but the younger brother may have found something with the GP26 as he struggles with fitness to better his older sibling.
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