Marc Marquez says brother Alex is “main opponent” for 2025 title

After working exhausting to defeat his brother on the Argentina GP right now, Marc Marquez declared that Alex has a real shot at including to his Moto2 and Moto3 world titles this season

Argentina Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez says he views his brother Alex – not manufacturing facility Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia – as his predominant opponent for this yr’s MotoGP world championship.

Alex, who rides a year-old GP24 Ducati for the Gresini staff, has completed second to Marc in each sprints and each grands prix thus far this season. However this represents probably the most profitable streak of the previous Moto2 and Moto3 world champion’s MotoGP profession thus far. And Marc needed to work tougher for right now’s grand prix win than any of his earlier three 2025 triumphs over Alex.

Marc made his first seen errors of the season through the Sunday race. He additionally misplaced the result in Alex from lap 4 to lap 22 of the 25. He regained the benefit solely on the second try to take the win over Alex, Franco Morbidelli and Bagnaia, who missed the rostrum for the primary time this season.

After the race, regardless of the chance that Ducati improvement may see Marc’s (and Bagnaia’s) GP25 achieve extra of an edge on Alex’s GP24 because the season progresses, Marc stated he noticed his brother as his largest rival within the title race. Marc leads Alex by 16 factors following the journey to South America.

“Alex will win some races this yr, multiple!” stated Marc. “I do know that when he’s [feeling confident], he is ready to win a world championship – like he did in Moto3 and in Moto2.

“Alex is the primary opponent for the championship.”

“I used to be impressed by my brother’s using model right now. He was using tremendous easily, tremendous nicely, all the time retaining the nook pace. I believed ‘This man is on one other stage right now’.

“There have been some moments right now once I stated to myself, ‘OK, second place is sufficient.’

“Ultimately, I [managed to win]. However as you noticed, I took a whole lot of dangers at some factors within the race – possibly an excessive amount of!”

Alex himself was cautious to not get caught up in questions in regards to the title race at this level within the season, however underlined that his present kind represents a excessive level in his profession efficiency.

“I’ve by no means felt so robust in MotoGP,” stated Alex. “I’m having fun with the bike and all the pieces I do. We have to maintain going like that.”