The third round of the 2025 MotoGP season takes place this weekend at the Americas Grand Prix, with Marc Marquez on a hot streak after two events so ♔far.

The eight-time world champion has a 100% record so far in 2025, having qualified on pole at both events and won both sprints and grands prix to lead the championship by 16 points for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:factory Ducati team.

But while Marquez has stolen the spotlight with his results, team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pecco Bagnaia has faced increasing scrutiny for his lacklustre start🎶𒁃 to the campaign.

ꦚAlready 31 points behind Marquez in the championship and not yet able to at least be best of the rest, Bagnaia has suggested that fo🤪r this weekend’s Americas GP he may revert to the GP24.

While Ducati is confident Bagnaia will ge🤪t ba📖ck on top, this weekend’s Austin round could well provide a true reflection as to just where he sits in the pecking order currently.

“It’s a sign of frustration a little bit when you’re saying comments like that,” Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren says in the latest Crash MotoGP Podcast.

“I think it’s frustration at 🐻seeing your team-mate ahead of you and another guy on the ’🧸24 bike.

“I think t🅷his weekend will be in🐓teresting because we can make a direct comparison to last year.

“The two rounds so far,🅷 Termas wasn’t on the calendar last year and Thailand was in a complete🤡ly different place on the calendar last year and it was a wet grand prix.

“This will be same track, similar time of year, and what is the performance like. How is he comparing📖 to what he did last year on the standard GP24.

“So𝄹, I think there will be some more answers this weekend that we maybe haven’t h🅷ad so far.

“It is a surprise. Everyone thought he was going to face a rea𓆏lly tough battle against Marc.

“People didn’t expect he’d also have Alex ahead of him in pretty much everꩲy sessওion.

“Pecco hasn’t really b♍een able to establish himself as best of the rest behind Marc yet and I think that’s the first thing he’s got to do this weekend, break up that Marquez brothers dominance, try and build some confidence🐻 there.

“Because when other people are going faster than you on the same bike, it’s very difficult because if you’re a team or a manufacturer yo꧅u’re saying ‘this other guy can do this ♕with this package. You can do this, you’re a talented guy’. And I think there’s pressure on Pecco to deliver that.”

Pecco Bagnaia can only blame bike for so long

On reverting to the GP24, Crash Social Media Manager and podcast host Jordan Moreland says: “I don’t think it would be a good move because 🔴you want to be on the same spec as your team-mate, you want to be having the 𒐪latest parts that he gets. You want to have that parity.”

W🐼hile acknowledging that something isn’t qꦕuite right yet with the GP25 to allow Bagnaia to be faster, Crash Senior Journalist Lewis Duncan also believes the Italian often has a tendency to avoid accountability in times of difficulty.

“It’s almost Pecco admitting defeat there that he can’t ride this 2025 bike, which♑ in theory isn’t very 𓂃different to the 2024 bike.

“I think we’ve seen this before with Pecco, when things don’t go his way he gets a bit lost in hi🐈s head.

“Think back to COTA a couple of years ago when he crashed out of the lead and he blamed it initially on the bike having too much stability on the front end, so he couldn’t feel the li🧸mit.

“He walked bac♍k those comments, so we’ve had that a few times - think back to the invisible visor tear-off at Misano in 2020 when he crashed out of the leꦯad.

“I think Pecco’s attitude has almost tended to default towards𒐪 blaming so🌄mething else instead of holding a bit of accountability for himself.

“Clearly something in the set-up of 🅠the bike isn’t quite working for him yet, and I think Ducati have said as such and they aren’t throwing him to the wolves yet.

“But they are also saying that ‘we d🐓on’t really know what it is. We think there’s something wrong but we can’t 🔥say for certain’.

“I think that’s the telliꦰng thing, especially when you look at the dominance of Marc Marquez on the bike and even Alex Marquez is faster than Bagnaia.

“Yeah, on paper, the results aren’t terrible, but he was 5.5s back from his tea💖m-mate in Argentina.

“There is a pr♏oblem there and we’re gonna start getting to the point✨ where we see that it’s the rider.

“We’ve seen Pecco before when thing aren’t right, he comes through. But we haven’t seen that and ♚you do have to start looking at it in the context of the other Ducatis and none of them are havi🅰ng the same problems.

“There’s only🅘 so much you can blame the bike f꧒or and I think already it’s too much.

“Alex Marquez isn’t riding the way he is just because he’s on the GP24. Pecco Bagnaia is a double world champion, so whatever problems 🦩he is having he needs to be riding around them. That’s what the best riders do, no bike is every perfect.”