{"id":239631,"date":"2025-10-25T10:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239631\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:12:07","slug":"alex-marquez-marc-and-i-not-getting-credit-we-deserve-for-2025-motogp-title-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239631\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez: \u2018Marc and I not getting credit we deserve\u2019 for 2025 MotoGP title 1-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Marquez believes he and his world champion brother Marc Marquez \u201care not getting the credit we deserve\u201d for their historic 1-2 in the 2025 MotoGP standings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> dominated the 2025 season on the factory Ducati with 11 grand prix victories and 14 sprint wins to claim his seventh MotoGP title.<\/p>\n<p>But he was pushed hard in the early part of the season by his younger brother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/935450\/alex-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez<\/a> on the Gresini-run GP24 Ducati, with the 29-year-old winning two grands prix so far on his way to securing runner-up in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>He did so on Saturday at the Malaysian Grand Prix with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/news\/1085274\/1\/2025-malaysian-motogp-pecco-bagnaia-dominates-sprint-alex-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a second-place finish in the sprint behind Pecco Bagnaia<\/a>, whom he currently leads by 102 points.<\/p>\n<p>It marks the first time in MotoGP history that two brothers have finished 1-2 in the championship &#8211; something Alex Marquez says was \u201cimpossible to dream\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>However, he also believes neither he nor his older brother has gotten enough kudos for the job they have done this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super happy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emotions were there in the parc ferme of the sprint. It\u2019s something that is not easy to achieve, something that is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t even dream it. It\u2019s impossible to dream of an occasion like this, to be first and second, to be at the top of the world championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something super amazing. I think Marc and I are not getting the credit we deserve.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I hope, and I\u2019m sure, we\u2019ll sit on the sofa and we\u2019ll say \u2018yeah, we were on top of the world\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be super nice. It\u2019s amazing. To achieve this with Gresini is amazing; it\u2019s my family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were always there. It\u2019s been a long three years, working, never stopping, many doubts, many people saying some wrong things about us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex Marquez admits his ride to second was not a comfortable one in the Sepang sprint due to his nerves, but every race now is \u201ca celebration\u201d of what he achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it was a sprint race, but it was long,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was riding in a really bad way, just trying to do everything on the throttle, and I was just spinning and not making way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we just need to be happy. But we know tomorrow we have a good opportunity to enjoy this and celebrate our second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo every race we have in front of us now will be a celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo achieve this with Gresini\u2026 we are in a better position than Marc and Enea [Bastianini]. These are not small guys. Enea is a great rider, and Marc is a nine-time world champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez believes he and his world champion brother Marc Marquez \u201care not getting the credit we deserve\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[8454,64,63,8455,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-239631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-alex-marquez","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-gresini-racing-motogp","12":"tag-marc-marquez","13":"tag-motor","14":"tag-motor-sports","15":"tag-motosport","16":"tag-motosports","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}