The San Marino MotoGP might be a “completely different story” for Alex Marquez, he thinks, after profitable in Barcelona.
Now a two-time winner in 2025 and the one a number of winner apart from his championship-leading brother Marc Marquez, Alex Marquez heads to Misano for this weekend’s San Marino MotoGP along with his confidence renewed following a troublesome interval across the summer time break after his hand fracture in Assen.
The Catalunya weekend was gained that Marquez says he wanted, particularly forward of a race at a circuit he has historically struggled at within the premier class, along with his finest outcome at Misano in MotoGP being the sixth place he picked up ultimately yr’s San Marino race.
“Barcelona outcome was super-important for us, particularly for the second that it was within the championship that we have been a little bit bit struggling within the final races, particularly with the outcomes,” Marquez instructed the pre-event press convention in Misano.
“It was a weekend {that a} rider wants when the boldness is just not 100 per cent, it offers to you a lift, offers to you even motivation to maintain going.
“It’s vital to reach right here in San Marino that we all know might be a special story, that particularly might be not straightforward and is one other monitor that usually I battle a little bit bit extra.
“However we attempt our greatest, we come right here with confidence and we are going to attempt to make our greatest once more.”
Explaining his difficulties in San Marino in previous seasons, Marquez stated that the primary part of corners on the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli structure have usually proved to be those who value him essentially the most time.
“There’s one a part of the monitor that I all the time lose quite a bit that might be flip one, flip two, flip three,” he stated.
“It’s my weakest level there, however for the remainder of the monitor I’m fairly quick.
“So, I hope that the GP24 will assist me rather a lot in comparison with the GP23 final yr that I used to be struggling particularly on braking factors. So, I hope the GP24 offers me extra confidence on the entrance a part of the bike and I’m in a position to go in quicker on the corners.
“If I’m not struggling on that time in sector one we will be quick, so I’ll give attention to ourselves to not make these errors and to have the ability to battle for every thing, or for the utmost that we will.”
The Gresini Racing staff for which Marquez rides has run a particular duplicate livery of considered one of Fausto Gresini’s Morbidelli 125cc bikes at Misano annually since 2022. Marquez defined that the previous staff boss’ spirit stays inside the squad now led by his widow, Nadia Padovani, who Marquez describes as a “actual boss”.
“For us it’s super-special to experience right here and to experience for Fausto [Gresini],” Marquez stated.
“We’ve all the time some presence of Fausto contained in the staff, it’s one thing that within the ambiance you may really feel it.
“I didn’t meet Fausto in a extremely deep method, as a result of once I got here on the [team] he already handed away, however it’s one thing that you just really feel the individuals, the ambiance, the way in which to work continues to be the ‘Fausto fashion’.”
He added: “I wish to say that Nadia [Padovani] is making a super-good job.
“She remained there, when Fausto handed away, and she or he’s a extremely vital gasoline for us, an actual boss – it’s Nadia there commanding every thing and it’s super-important.”
