{"id":53700,"date":"2025-08-08T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T20:04:09","slug":"how-marc-marquezs-spectacular-motogp-form-has-affected-francesco-bagnaias-standing-within-ducati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/53700\/","title":{"rendered":"How Marc Marquez\u2019s \u2018spectacular\u2019 MotoGP form has affected Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s standing within Ducati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After winning consecutive MotoGP world titles with Ducati and almost making it a third in 2024, Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s standing at the Italian constructor has taken a hit amid Marc Marquez\u2019s total dominance in 2025. <\/p>\n

The Italian rider has raced in the shadow of Marquez<\/a> for the majority of this season, with the Spaniard taking a commanding lead of the riders\u2019 championship with him into MotoGP\u2019s summer break.<\/p>\n

Bagnaia summed up his 2025 MotoGP season<\/a> in three words, with one of those words being \u2018difficult\u2019. The 28-year-old has struggled to get to grips with the GP25 bike Ducati<\/a> have entered for the 2025 season, with Marquez on the opposite end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n

Marquez\u2019s early pace this season left Bagnaia \u2018raging\u2019<\/a>, with the Italian having to accept his teammate\u2019s pace as the season has progressed. Marquez has shown no signs of slowing down after winning the previous five Grands Prix consecutively.<\/p>\n

Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s reputation at Ducati may never \u2018recover\u2019 after a tough season in the shadow of Marc Marquez<\/p>\n

Bagnaia\u2019s<\/a> struggles on the GP25 has led to frustration within the Ducati setup, who are \u2018distressed\u2019 by the rider\u2019s poor form, according to a report by Marca<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He has won just one race this season, at the Americas Grand Prix, thanks to a crash by Marquez, who was leading at the time.<\/p>\n

\"MarcPhoto by Fabrizio Carabelli\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n

His \u2018inability\u2019 to adapt to the riding style that the bike demands has been another key reason why Ducati are looking elsewhere for the 2027 season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In a separate report by The Race<\/a>, Bagnaia is at risk of \u2018never\u2019 being able to recover the \u2018lofty position\u2019 he held at the Italian constructor due to the level of riding Marquez has shown on the same machinery this season. <\/p>\n

His \u2018shocking\u2019 form in Sprint races this year has been a key factor in why Ducati may not see the 28-year-old as a future title contender with the team.<\/p>\n

Marc Marquez has been \u2018spectacular\u2019 in the 2025 MotoGP season<\/p>\n

On the other side of the scale, Ducati are \u2018very happy\u2019 with the Ant of Cervera\u2019s \u2018spectacular\u2019 performances that he has consistently shown on the GP25 through the 2025 season, according to Marca.<\/p>\n

Marquez has dominated the Sprint races on Saturdays, winning all but one of them after 12 rounds in the books. Sundays have painted a similar picture, with the Spaniard taking eight of the chequered flags so far to put himself in record-setting pace. <\/p>\n

RankRiderPoints1Marc Marquez3812Alex Marquez2613Francesco Bagnaia2134Marco Bezzecchi1565Fabio Di Giannantonio1422025 MotoGP riders\u2019 standings<\/p>\n

He has ten rounds remaining of the 2025 season to break his 2014 record of 13 Grand Prix victories in a single season. If he is perfect from the resumption of the summer break in Austria, he could break the record as early as the Indonesian Grand Prix in October.<\/p>\n

Marquez has been rather animated in his post-race celebrations, something Mat Oxley identified that must be hard for Bagnaia<\/a> amid a season which has begged for more from the Italian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After winning consecutive MotoGP world titles with Ducati and almost making it a third in 2024, Francesco Bagnaia\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,17197,7607,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-53700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ducati","tag-francesco-bagnaia","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\/53700","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=53700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}