Alex Marquez has stated it’s “not attainable” for him to problem for the 2025 MotoGP title regardless of his good begin to the brand new marketing campaign.
The Gresini rider was speedy all through winter testing and carried ahead that tempo into the season-opening Thai Grand Prix weekend, qualifying on the entrance row and ending second within the dash.
Though he couldn’t stop Marc Marquez from claiming a dominant victory, he had no bother keeping off the second manufacturing unit Ducati of Francesco Bagnaia, ending greater than two seconds away from the Italian.
However whereas Alex Marquez says “dreaming is free”, he thinks the championship will stay out of his attain in what is anticipated to be his best season within the premier class.
“I will reply actually: no, it isn’t attainable. You need to be real looking,” he stated of his title probabilities.
“They have been on the entrance for a lot of extra years, preventing for championships, always within the high three within the basic classification. Marc has gained so much, they’ve expertise that we do not have, of preventing each weekend for the rostrum.
“However, having stated that, why not? Dreaming is free, life has taught me that by dreaming and dealing you may obtain issues, we’ll give it our all and see the place we’re on the finish of the season.”
Marc Marquez, Ducati Crew
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Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez stated his youthful brother was the one rider within the discipline who may sustain together with his tempo within the dash race at Buriram.
Alex Marquez did certainly handle to carry the hole right down to a second within the latter levels, however the manufacturing unit Ducati rider was in a position to stretch his benefit as soon as once more and was by no means actually in menace of shedding the win.
The 28-year-old thinks each Marc Marquez and Bagnaia are in a position to “do various things” on observe in comparison with different Ducati riders and it’s arduous for him to duplicate their performances.
“I believe he has a number of extra hidden tenths, at the very least one, which does not seem to be something however is so much right here,” Alex stated of Marc Marquez.
“I believe we did our greatest on paper, which was to realistically end second, so I am very joyful.
“I may also take a look at Marc’s and Pecco’s knowledge. They do various things, you may see it in observe, however till you’re behind them within the race and see the traces you may’t know, he does flip 4 very quick and it is rather troublesome to mimic him. However in different factors, like flip three or one, I can enhance a bit.
“I hold saying that they each have just a little extra, with Pecco extra equal, however he has extra limits than me, we’ve to make a very good begin and a few good first laps, it is going to be essential.”
Photographs from Thailand GP – Saturday
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