In 2025, Marc Marquez will have "everything he needs" to win the title

In 2025, Marc Marquez will join Pecco Bagnaia in the Ducati factory team, with the aim of winning a ninth world championship crown, a seventh in the premier class. A title that the #93 has been chasing since the 2019 season. A year that preceded a major injury, followed by Honda's fall in the hierarchy, compared to the European brands.

To achieve this, Marc Marquez knows who he will have to measure up to. His teammate, double world champion with Ducati, has just lost the title by just a few points to Jorge Martín. However, he crushed the competition on Sunday, winning eleven of the twenty races organized.

“I’m in the best team, with the best bike, and my teammate has won twice in MotoGP, and disputed the title with Jorge until the last race, Marquez confides in an interview with the famous Spanish beer brand, Estrella Galicia. And he lost it by ten points, so I'll have all the tools at my disposal to fight for the championship. It's in my hands. When you come from a difficult situation, you have to have some kind of strategy for the future."

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“That’s what I did in 2023, when I made the decision to join Gresini. Everything that happened after that was the consequences of the results achieved on the track. But next year, the plan is already set, He continues. I will have to be fast on the track to achieve my goals. I didn't win the title this year. But on a personal and professional level, I won much more. I found myself, I extended my sporting career, without asking myself whether I should continue or not. With this situation, it was going through my head.

The GP25 already superior to the GP24

Just under two weeks ago, the Spaniard completed his first laps under the banner of the official Borgo Panigale team. He therefore had the opportunity to get an idea of ​​the machine he will be riding next year.

"During 90% of this day, I tested the GP25, because this Test day is for the engineers who have to find the way forward for next year, adds Marc Marquez. Knowing in which direction to evolve the bike, and Pecco and I, gave the same feedback. The same advantages, and the same problems. From the GP23 to the GP25, there is a gap, and from the GP24 to the GP25, it is different. It is difficult to say that a bike is better than the one that has been running all year in just a few laps.

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Gigi Dall'Igna in the Ducati box during the Official Test in Barcelona ©Michelin

Score in enemy lands

Before the start of the next campaign, Marquez also knows that he will have to make his place within his new team. A job that his teammate who has already proven himself thanks to all the exploits he has accomplished with the Bologna factory no longer has to do.

"I have never experienced this situation, Marquez admits about this. Normally there is no number 2 or number 1 in a garage, but here you arrive in a box where Pecco is the boss. He brought two titles to Ducati, he won eleven races this year. So it is logical that he is considered a bit like the leader for the pre-season, and the first races.

The Iberian will also have the opportunity to strengthen his ties with Ducati's iconic engineer, Gigi Dall'Igna. A character he admires. "Dall'Igna the best engineer? For me he's the best leader. There are many good engineers. Better than him, and worse. But in the end, you have to be a leader. Control a group of people."

The next test sessions will take place in February, on the Sepang circuit (Malaysia). Until then, the drivers will take advantage of a short winter break to rest, and prepare physically to face a campaign of twenty-two events.