Marc Marquez on 2025: Pecco Bagnaia “knows the secrets of the bike”
"I꧙ don’t want to retire in the future thinking ‘maybe…’”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has given a detailed description of his road back from near༺-retirement꧒ to the factory Ducati seat.
Next season he will step up from Gresini onto MotoGP’s most coveted maꦑchine, alongside current ♌champion Francesco Bagnaia.
Bagna🐼ia is a Ducati stalwart and their star man who must overcome a 24-point deficit to Jorge Martin at this season’s finale in Barcelona to retain his title.
Marquez earned the promotion to the f🅺actory team after refusing a switch to Pra🃏mac, despite them being able to also offer a latest-spec Desmosedici.
“I wanted to win, and if I want to win then 🐼I need the correct bike, just to have a chance,” Marqu✤ez told TNT Sports.
“Then, of course, you need to have the bꦜ*lls to do it!
“I will be fꦓighting a teammate who is a world champion and has been riding a Ducati for six ye꧂ars.
'Smile becomes normal'
Marquez has rediscovered his spark t🐻his season, since quitting 💙Honda and moving to Gresini Ducati.
He le🦩ft behind a lucrative salary at Honda - but also left behind a poor bike which was causing him to crash, and further his extensive list of injuries.
“When you smile a🌞 lot, it becomes usual and normal,” he said.
“You forget the difficult moments.
“ꦚBut when you’re in a difficult moment, you put more value into what a good moment mea💎ns.
“From one day to the other, I was l🍰iving my best days. But then my nightmare started.
“Now, I smile again. It’s eve💜n more important than world championships.”
'Hardest moment' of injury described
He said about his injuries, most notable at Jerez in 2020 where his arm problems severely worsened🤡: “On the mental side, it was one of the most difficult things.
“When you get injured, the first a♒nd second years are no problem.
“But when you are struggling, you go to the doctor who says ‘your rehabilitation is✅ done’ but you still don’t feel well?
“Theℱn the question marks in your mind start. You have doubts in yourself.
“This is the hardest moment.”
Marquez won in Aragon this year, his first Ducati victory, and his first in three ye🔴💫ars overall.
“The feeling was incred🦹ible. I had waited a long ti♔me,” he said.
“In 2014 I won 𓄧10 racཧes in a row but now? Just one after two years! So the value changes.
“Before my accident, winning was n🍰ormal. It was not speci🦹al. To be second was to lose.
“But winning is not ꦿnormal because only one rider can win.
“It has changed my perception🥂 on sport and racing꧑.”
'My plan is already done'
T🔴hat victory, and his ability to stick at the battle for the championship🦋 until recently, has vindicated what Marquez calls ‘his plan’.
He said: “My plan is already done.
“When I arrived at Gresini, I had a plan.
“The priority was to understand if I cou🅘ld be competitive again.
“The plan was to have a chance to be in a factory team. The best team, on the best bike༺. ⛦That was Ducati Lenovo.
“But I needed to show speed because your value is your last race, not what you have achieved in the pa♌st.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a d🌱ecade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
