Marc Marquez has been fighting against the🍷 best-ever MotoGP bike thi⭕s season, it has been claimed.

The Ducati GP24 has been described as the top 🌸machine in premier class historyꦗ.

Title rivals🎀 Pecco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin are both equipped with the latest version of the Desmosedici, making the task for Marquez even more difficult on a year-old spec🦋ification.

“Pramac have the same tools as Pecco. The GP23 is not a bad machine but it’s a year old,ﷺ it’𒁃s not the latest and greatest,” TNT Sports’ Michael Laverty assessed.

“It struggles to maxi𓄧mise the tyre. It’s not as good as the new bike from Ducati.

“Pecco said at the Misano test that the new chass❀is⛦ works with the new tyre even better.

“It’s ominous for the other 🐼contenders i💖n 2025. Ducati are ahead of their rivals.”

Marquez, of c🗹ourse, will hugely benefit from a step up in mac🍷hinery next season.

His promotion from Gresini to the factory Ducati squad means he wꦛill pos🐟sess equal machinery to Bagnaia in 2025.

Mar🦄tin will ride an Aprilia while Bastianini will be on a KTM, having fled Ducati who chose Marquez above them for their factory bike.

The importance of the latest speꦯcification Ducati is visible this season, Laver🎃ty insists.

“Bastianini with𒊎 early-season form would be a proper thorn in the side of Martin and Pecco,” he said.

“But t𓄧o win a title, s꧂tats say that you have to be on the latest Ducati.

🌼“The GP24 is the best motorcycle w✱e’ve ever seen, I’ve got to say.

𓂃“It is the cutting edge right now. It💃 works so well, it’s so fast, it breaks lap records every weekend.

“They 🧸don’t cease to p🎐ush development, there is more to come.”

MotoꦜGP will enforce an en𒀰gine freeze for the 2026 season, ahead of the major technical shake-up the following year.

This rule could further play into the hands of the dominant Ducatis, ✃Nei🍎l Hodgson believes.

And it creates a♈ potential problem for 𓂃Aprilia and KTM, currently their nearest rivals, who cannot afford to put a foot wrong.

Hod👍gson explained: “It works well for the Japanese manufacturers, not for Aprilia and KTM.

“Ducati will have been all over it, saying ‘we can freeze from toda▨y!’

“It means at Round 1 of 2025, whatever engine has been selected will continue through 2025 an𝐆d 2026.

“It puts a lot of pressure on Aprilia and KTM to make tꦏhe right decision this winter. If they make the wrong decision, they’ve got two years of a disa♒ster.”