{"id":70822,"date":"2025-08-15T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70822\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:18:10","slug":"casey-stoner-admits-marc-marquez-has-shocked-him-with-red-hot-ducati-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70822\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey Stoner admits Marc Marquez has shocked him with red-hot Ducati dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner says Marc Marquez\u2019s dominant 2025 season has been unexpected and \u201chis most impressive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After 12 rounds of the 2025 campaign, the factory Ducati rider has won eight grands prix and 11 sprints to lead the championship by a commanding 120 points ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a return to form that comes five years on from a serious arm injury that plagued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a> for several seasons after, as well as uncompetitive Honda machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Stoner &#8211; who retired from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> in 2012, making way at Honda for Marc Marquez &#8211; said the uncertainty over the Spaniard\u2019s fitness led to questions about his capability pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3000_gng_1251106_hires.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Marquez, 2025 Austrian MotoGP\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1999\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Marc Marquez, 2025 Austrian MotoGP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I didn\u2019t think Marc would be so fast, especially in the beginning of the year,\u201d he told Sky Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw him gaining confidence again last year after changing to Ducati with Gresini.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I wasn\u2019t sure still how his arm was and how he was recovering from this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it was going to be interesting at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure, I didn\u2019t expect results like this, what he\u2019s been able to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut clearly last year he was gaining confidence, the arm must be close to 100% again and now he\u2019s able to do things that the others cannot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, he\u2019s been really impressive this year. We\u2019ve always seen impressive things from Marquez, but I think this is probably his most impressive season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the summer break, Marquez named 2007 and 2011 champion Stoner as a name on his hypothetical dream grid to race against.<\/p>\n<p>Stoner was Ducati\u2019s first world champion and spent four years with the Italian marque, before joining Honda in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian returned to Ducati in the mid 2010s as a test rider for a brief spell.<\/p>\n<p>Stoner is present this weekend at the Austrian Grand Prix to take part in a legends\u2019 parade at the Red Bull Ring aboard a Honda RC213V-S.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Double MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner says Marc Marquez\u2019s dominant 2025 season has been unexpected and \u201chis most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,21588,4280,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-70822","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-casey-stoner","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\/70822","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=70822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}