Alex Marquez admits he couldn’t have crushed Marc Marquez to the 2025 MotoGP world title even when he put in a “excellent” season, however sees preventing in opposition to him as “an honour”.
For many of the 2025 season, Alex Marquez was the closest challenger to his older brother within the championship race having amassed two grand prix victories.
However Marc Marquez proved too dominant, profitable 11 grands prix and 14 sprints on his approach to wrapping up a seventh world title by the seventeenth spherical of twenty-two this season.
Alex Marquez allowed the hole to his older brother to swell via key errors, together with crashes on the Dutch and Czech Grands Prix.
However he admits, even with out these, there was no method of beating Marc Marquez within the type that he has been on this season.
“I imply, I feel making our issues in an ideal state of affairs couldn’t be sufficient to struggle with Marc or to win the title,” he stated.
“Nonetheless with the error in Holland, with the errors in Brno.
“He’s making all of the data of factors and statistics and all that.
“So, in opposition to you could’t win something. So, it’s what it’s.
“I don’t have the sensation that I’ve misplaced in opposition to my older brother, it’s not like that.
“Whenever you lose in opposition to probably the greatest in historical past, it’s the alternative – it’s like an honour to struggle in opposition to him.”
Alex Marquez is nicely on his approach to ending runner-up within the 2025 standings, having taken an 88-point lead over Pecco Bagnaia after scoring a podium on the Indonesian Grand Prix.
The Gresini rider can safe that subsequent trip in Australia if he manages to finish the spherical 111 factors away from Bagnaia.
He was topped unbiased rider champion in Indonesia.
