The 2025 MotoGP season heads to the USA for spherical three, with Marc Marquez trying to sustain his 100% win file this weekend on the Americas Grand Prix.
The manufacturing unit Ducati rider has made an ideal begin to life with the Italian marque’s works squad, having certified on pole and gained each races on the opening two rounds of the season in Thailand and Argentina.
The Circuit of the Americas has been a cheerful looking floor for Marc Marquez through the years, with the Spaniard profitable seven instances on the Texan venue – together with his maiden premier class success in 2013.
With most predicting him to dominate this weekend, Marquez warned on Thursday within the pre-even press convention that COTA was the one race he crashed out of throughout his “excellent” 2019 marketing campaign. Due to this fact, he’s not getting carried away.
Having pushed him exhausting within the Argentina GP, Alex Marquez can be trying to go one higher than the second-place he has to date completed in each race of 2025.
The Gresini rider would not have a stellar file at COTA, however he’s assured that he can be aggressive this weekend given how good he feels on his GP24 Ducati.
All eyes can be on Pecco Bagnaia and if he can get himself into victory competition after a tough begin to the marketing campaign within the opening two rounds.
The double world champion stated after ending a distant fourth in Argentina that he may look to revert to the GP24 from Austin – feedback he backtracked on, claiming he did not put throughout what he meant to say.
Usually not a robust circuit for Bagnaia, he believes he has tempo sufficient to be higher at COTA than he was at Termas de Rio Hondo two weeks in the past.
COTA represents the newest venue at which Honda has gained a grand prix, after Alex Rins guided his LCR-run RC213V to the Americas GP win in 2023.
After a robust weekend in Argentina, during which Johann Zarco certified on the entrance row and cracked the highest six in each races, Honda is well-placed to impress once more.
MotoGP FP1 begins at 3:45pm GMT, with Observe at 8pm GMT.
