Alex Marquez <\/a>who emerged as the factory team\u2019s closest challenger.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n
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While Marc and Alex Marquez went on to secure a historic brotherly one-two in the standings, Bagnaia slipped to fifth overall, followed by di Giannantonio and Morbidelli.<\/p>\n
Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer claimed a race win on his way to eighth, something neither VR46 rider managed. In the teams\u2019 standings, Ducati Lenovo finished ahead of Gresini, with VR46 in third.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot so bad,\u201d Nieto told Crash.net, when asked to review 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet’s say that expectations are always a little bit bigger, because always you want to do better. But that’s normal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to see where we can improve to make something better in 2026.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think it’s very important for us to look back and see what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
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VR46 celebrate a Sprint double podium.<\/p>\n
“Why can’t he make all the races like that?”<\/p>\n
Between them, di Giannantonio and Morbidelli collected 13 rostrums in Sprint and Grand Prix races. However, neither rider claimed back-to-back Sunday podiums.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the biggest problem we had this season is that we weren’t so consistent. One race, we were fighting to win. At another race, it was difficult to finish in the top ten. So we have to understand why,\u201d Nieto confirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause in the end, when one rider is trying to fight for the podium or for the victory, that means he has the speed. So why can’t he make all the races like that? This is the goal, so we have to check what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
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“A small problem became a bigger one”<\/p>\n
The inconsistency affected both riders, despite their different spec of bikes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to check, because it’s strange,\u201d Nieto acknowledged. \u201cSometimes Diggia was very fast, sometimes Franco was very fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the biggest problem that we had with both riders, it was that when we had a problem, a small problem became a bigger one. That’s one of the main points we have to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Were Diggia\u2019s front-end confidence issues similar to those suffered by Bagnaia?<\/p>\n
\u201cTo tell you the truth, I don’t know, because I’m not in the garage of Pecco,\u201d Nieto replied.<\/p>\n
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\u201cSometimes I hear that we are quite similar in some points. But it’s very difficult to say, because the riders are in different teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
di Giannantonio will be one of four riders on a factory spec GP26 this season, with the promotion of Alex Marquez, while Morbidelli joins only Aldeguer in running a satellite spec machine.<\/p>\n
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