Joan Mir believes there isn’t any rider on the MotoGP grid who can deny Marc Marquez the 2025 title, however Marquez himself.
The six-time MotoGP champion has made an ideal begin to his stint with the manufacturing unit Ducati crew this yr, scoring back-to-back pole positions and victories in Thailand and Argentina to claim his authority over his rivals.
The Spaniard has shortly tailored to the factory-spec Desmosedici after using the GP23 at Gresini final yr, along with his early type in 2025 reminding onlookers of his dominant days at Honda within the mid-to-late-2020s.
Marquez’s former Honda teammate Mir has been impressed by how shortly the 32-year-old has pulled away from the competitors this yr, saying he once more has all of the elements to place collectively a profitable title bid.
Mir believes his countryman has such a significant benefit that the one means he can miss out on a title this yr is that if he makes too many errors and shoots himself within the foot.
“Marc is dominating. I feel the one one who can lose this title is him as a result of he has all the pieces to win,” the 2020 champion was quoted by es.Motorsport.com.
“He has the expertise, the pace and one of the best bike. Marc is aware of completely properly the place the boundaries are, that is what expertise has given him. I feel he will not have too many issues this yr in taking the title if he does not create them himself!”
Mir went by way of an extremely powerful 2024 season at Honda following Marquez’s departure from the Japanese producer, because the RC213V continued to slide down the aggressive order.
He brazenly talked in regards to the influence Honda’s aggressive struggles had on his psychological well being, even admitting that he thought-about an early retirement in his 20s.
Nevertheless, Honda seems to have made a large step ahead over the winter break, with LCR rider Johann Zarco qualifying on the entrance row in Argentina after which ending a stable sixth within the race.
Mir, who ultimately signed a brand new two-year take care of Honda, feels he’s now in one of the best form since his tenure at Suzuki was reduce brief by the Hamamatsu-based model’s sudden departure from MotoGP on the finish of 2022.
After securing a direct passage into Q2 on the Americas GP in blended climate circumstances on Friday, Mir mentioned: “The target has been achieved. It was a really troublesome day, which demanded to be quick always and in all circumstances. And I used to be in a position to be.
“You are not quick in all these circumstances in case you do not feel good on the bike; that is one thing else. That is essentially the most assured second since I have been with Honda.”
