Marc Marquez's move to Ducati in 2025 brings high expectations, but the Spaniard faces several challenges, including navigating intra-team tensions with Francesco Bagnaia.
Marc Marquez will join the factory Ducati MotoGP squad for the 2025 season , with expectations for this move high as he takes the next steps in his career rebuild. It’s been five years since Marquez was last world champion, at the end of his most dominant season ever in the premier class in 2019. The major career setback dealt to him by the crash at the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix in which he suffered a badly broken arm was followed by Honda’s form declining rapidly.
Marquez elected to take a year-old Ducati at Gresini Racing for 2024 to see if he could still be competitive. Almost instantly that point was proven true, with Ducati electing to promote him to its factory squad in 2025. The powerplay Marquez pulled to get what he wanted has weakened Ducati. It has lost the 2024 world champion Jorge Martin to Aprilia, sent Pramac to Yamaha, while Marco Bezzecchi and Enea Bastianini have departed its stable for Aprilia and KTM. There is also the intra-team tensions to consider. Both Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia have been civil up to now, but it is known that the VR46 camp wasn’t happy with Ducati’s U-turn last summer. As 2025 blooms, Crash looks at the five key hurdles Marquez will face at the factory Ducati team this year.The best version of Francesco Bagnaia “The best version” was how Martin described Bagnaia at the end of the 2024 campaign. And for good reason. The double world champion won 11 grands prix and only missed out on the title by 10 points despite registering eight non-scores. Only the likes of Valentino Rossi, Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner have won as many grands prix in a single season in the modern era. Bagnaia acknowledges the mistakes he made and how costly they were. Assume he does iron those out in 2025, the speed is not in question. Marquez and Bagnaia have only had one proper battle for victory so far as Ducati stablemates. That was at the Spanish GP last year, which Bagnaia came out of on to
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