{"id":626114,"date":"2026-04-23T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626114\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:01:08","slug":"alex-marquez-brands-repeat-jerez-motogp-win-not-realistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/626114\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez brands repeat Jerez MotoGP win \u201cnot realistic\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Alex Marquez has already dismissed the possibility of repeating his Spanish MotoGP victory from 12 months ago this weekend.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marquez\u2019s Spanish Grand Prix victory last year at Jerez was his first in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> class, and this year\u2019s event will mark his 250th grand prix across all classes. But the Spaniard, who celebrates his 30th birthday today (23 April) is sure that a repeat of his 2025 victory this weekend will not be possible after his podium-less start to 2026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cDefinitely not,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/935450\/alex-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez<\/a> said of his chances to win this weekend\u2019s Spanish Grand Prix during the pre-event press conference at Jerez.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe first part of the season has been a little bit difficult for us, especially on Thailand. It\u2019s true that on Brazil and on Austin we were a bit better, but still far away especially from Aprilia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut I think that we are working in a really good way, Ducati is working really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/gresini-racing-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gresini Racing<\/a> rider added that he also has margin to improve himself and the way he is approaching riding the bike.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAlso I know that me as a rider I need to make a step in the riding style and thinking less about the problems and approach in a better way the things, and take more profit about the things that we have, that are many positive ones,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFrom that moment, we will be back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201c[Jerez] is the best circuit or the best moment of the season to come back and to have again a good performance, so we will try again to give our best.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTo repeat the things like last year would be amazing, but it\u2019s a little bit not realistic in this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marquez continued, explaining the specific area that he has struggled with so far with the 2026 Ducati Desmosedici GP.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cEspecially I\u2019m struggling a lot how to brake, how to stop the bike \u2013 it\u2019s the thing that I\u2019m missing more because I\u2019m missing a lot in that part of the corner,\u201d Marquez said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut we need to keep going. We can\u2019t lose the patience that we are having, just three races [in], the season is so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He added: \u201cI think in the other places we are more or less in the same point as last year, even better in engine for example that we are faster and we have a little bit more power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo, just is the point of how to brake and how to go in [to the corner] that I\u2019m feeling that I\u2019m struggling to stop the bike. It\u2019s just that point, the other points I feel really good, we saw it on the numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBut also it\u2019s true that Aprilia did a step forward and they are [pushing] us more to the limit on the more difficult things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m feeling that with not many strange things or not changing a lot, just with small items, we can make a really nice, positive step forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez has already dismissed the possibility of repeating his Spanish MotoGP victory from 12 months ago this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[8454,64,63,8455,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-626114","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-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\/626114","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=626114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}