{"id":299752,"date":"2025-11-21T18:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299752\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:21:07","slug":"marc-marquez-reveals-moment-he-started-to-realise-2025-motogp-title-was-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/299752\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez reveals moment he \u201cstarted to realise\u201d 2025 MotoGP title was his"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Marc Marquez has pinpointed the moment at which he started to believe the 2025 MotoGP title could be his.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marquez dominated the 2025 season, winning by 78 points in the end despite missing five races. He won three of the first four grands prix, then eight of nine between Aragon and Misano, before wrapping his ninth world title up in Japan with five races still remaining.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was not always obvious to Marquez himself, however, that the title would be his, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati Lenovo Team<\/a> rider has picked out the Qatar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> as the key race in his 2025 title charge, as winning there seemed to be proof he could be competitive anywhere, and it came after a race in Austin where he crashed out of the lead.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFor me, the most important GP was Qatar,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> revealed, speaking to MotoGP.com after the season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI was coming from Austin GP that I did a big mistake and then in Qatar again 37 points, Sprint and main race, in a different circuit for my riding style.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo, it\u2019s there where I started to realise that it was the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marquez\u2019s season was one of consistency, but the most important ingredient to his 2025 success was a simple one, to an extent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut in the end, the most important is the speed: if you have the speed, if you are fast, it\u2019s easier to control the situations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2025 was Marquez\u2019s first title since breaking his right humerus in the Spanish Grand Prix in 2020.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He arrived this year with a new team, a \u201cnew arm\u201d, with 32 years behind him, and a \u201cdifferent mentality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s a different Marc,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI will not say it\u2019s a better Marc because the other Marc also was winning; it\u2019s the same Marc with different strong points.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNow I have we can say a different arm, a different physical condition, different mentality \u2013 you need to adapt, you cannot ride the same way as 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ending on the sidelines<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 2025 season ended with more injury trouble for Marquez, who missed the last five races after suffering a shoulder injury in a crash with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/995158\/marco-bezzecchi\" data-entity-type=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> in Indonesia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His recovery is going well at the moment with still more than two months until the Sepang test next February.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m in good shape and right now the doctors are happy,\u201d he said. \u201cSo, this is the most important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis new injury didn\u2019t affect the previous ones, and the fact that I have all winter in front means that the doctor, physios, and me \u2013 we have all the steps a bit more with extra caution.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis injury arrived not in a good moment, because it was time to celebrate, but in the best time: everything was done, everything was closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez has pinpointed the moment at which he started to believe the 2025 MotoGP title could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,8456,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-299752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati-lenovo-team","tag-marc-marquez","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299752","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=299752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}