{"id":366823,"date":"2025-12-23T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366823\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:19:07","slug":"marc-marquez-tempers-motogp-expectations-2025-impossible-to-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366823\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez tempers MotoGP expectations: \u20182025 impossible to repeat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning seven-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez believes his dominant 2025 season\u00a0is \u201calmost impossible to repeat\u201d given the weekend format now.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old came into the 2025 season as the overwhelming favourite for the world title, having moved to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/ducati-lenovo-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">factory Ducati<\/a> squad after his race-winning turn with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/gresini-racing-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gresini<\/a> on a GP23.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a>\u2019s levels of domination surpassed expectations, as he scored 11 grand prix victories and 14 sprints wins on his way to a seventh premier class title.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducati rider really took control of the championship in the middle part of the campaign, when he went on a run of seven successive 37-point weekends between Aragon and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Injury forced him out of the final four rounds.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Marquez doubts 2025 repeat next season<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on last season, Marquez said the goal was always to fight for the title, but never expected the level of domination he achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I never imagined such a great year,\u201d he told El Periodico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hoped that was the goal, I even said so, that I could try to fight for the world championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, not like this, clinching the title with five races to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I think it\u2019s almost impossible to repeat, because between the sprints and the races, there are so many points up for grabs every weekend, it\u2019s not easy.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a very solid year, with a few mistakes, but winning a lot of races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marquez suffered a complicated shoulder injury after a collision with Marco Bezzecchi at the Indonesian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>On his recovery, he noted: \u201cPhysically, we\u2019re improving, which is the important thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had four or five weeks of immobilisation, and naturally, the arm loses a lot of strength, but now we\u2019re gradually improving, with check-ups every two weeks to make sure everything is going well and is in order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bone needs to heal properly; we have to wait, and the ligament also needs to heal as well as possible.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, we can move on to a slightly more intensive rehabilitation soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, for now, it\u2019s many hours on the treatment table, physiotherapy, hyperbaric chamber therapy &#8211; anything that helps is a bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning seven-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez believes his dominant 2025 season\u00a0is \u201calmost impossible to repeat\u201d given the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-366823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ducati","11":"tag-marc-marquez","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366823","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=366823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}