Gresini<\/a>], let’s see if I’m competitive. If that year with Gresini, I was not competitive, I’m sure that my career ends,\u201d Marc said.<\/p>\n\u201cTo leave Honda for a very good team that was Gresini, but ride for free, just to prove to myself that I was able to be competitive was a very big challenge where I risked a lot of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Riding a year-old GP23, a tricky bike that Marc\u2019s fellow satellite riders struggled with, it took until the second half of last season to claim his first Ducati win.<\/p>\n
But the factory had already seen enough to choose him over title leader Jorge Martin for the 2025 seat alongside Francesco Bagnaia at the official team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew that I was in the perfect place to fight for the championship,\u201d Marc said of the Ducati Lenovo move.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was preparing my season with one target, which was to try to fight for the championship. But of course, the way we are fighting for the championship is something nobody can predict.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinning a lot of races, winning at circuits that normally I struggle, it is something unusual and difficult to repeat.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Marc Marquez, Francesco Bagnaia<\/p>\n
“I said Bagnaia was the favourite”<\/p>\n
Marc has dominated the season, winning 11 of the 16 Grands Prix so far and 14 Sprints.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, double champion Bagnaia has rarely been able to offer a challenge on the GP25.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI was saying at the team presentation that [Bagnaia] was the favourite for the championship because the last four years he was super competitive,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is that when you start to lose confidence, you are riding stiffer than ever. Then the bike is not turning because you are not playing with the body. But<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that Pecco will come back. He has the talent, he has the team. If we want the best for the project, we need both riders at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Marc Marquez<\/p>\n
“Impossible to try more”<\/p>\n
But 2025 is all about Marc Marquez, the rider who risked it all to return to the top.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf you try, it doesn’t mean that you will achieve. But it’s already a success. Because if you don’t try, then you don’t know.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I retire someday, I know that to try more than I have was impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marc Marquez needs to outscore Alex by three points over the Motegi weekend to be crowned champion with five rounds still to go.<\/p>\n
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