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Alex Marquez: Silverstone “slightly better” for my style, but Marc “knows how to be fast”

May 21, 2025 3 Min Read
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Alex Marquez might have outqualified brother Marc as Gresini team-mates eventually yr’s British MotoGP – and gained the moist 2023 Dash – however he’s underneath no illusions about who’s favorite heading into this weekend’s Silverstone occasion.

Though Alex held the higher hand over a single lap final yr, and agrees that Silverstone’s flowing corners go well with his driving model, Marc turned the tables in each of final yr’s races.

The #93 was holding fourth, with Alex in seventh, when he crashed out of the Dash. These positions – fourth for Marc, seventh for Alex – have been then repeated on the chequered flag of the grand prix.

The Marquez brothers return to the UK holding first and second on this yr’s world championship standings – new manufacturing facility Ducati rider Marc breaking 22 factors away from Jerez winner Alex after a non-score at Le Mans.

Though Marc has not gained at Silverstone since 2014, that was the case forward of spherical 4 in Qatar, the place Marc emerged with an ideal double victory.

“Final yr, with the GP23 bike, he was capable of be in entrance of me. So he’s higher than me [at Silverstone],” mentioned Alex, who was 2.8s from Marc on the end final season.

“It’s a monitor that usually I get pleasure from it so much, it is actually quick, flowing. However about efficiency, it isn’t that I am higher than him [at Silverstone].

“Possibly it is a monitor that, for my driving model, is barely higher, however it’s Marc Marquez, he isn’t a rider who would not know methods to be quick on some tracks.”

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Though Alex suffered his first DNF of the season after crashing twice within the Le Mans race, the Gresini rider had no regrets over his bike-swap choices.

Like Marc, the #73 began on slicks, served a double lengthy lap for the pre-race bike swap, then was pressured to modify to wets because the rain worsened.

“For six laps, it was not raining. I feel that 2 laps extra within the dry, and we’d have been capable of be additionally in entrance of Johann [Zarco, race winner, starting on wets],” Alex mentioned.

“A state of affairs like that’s all the time a lottery. We performed the lottery in a great way, however later the crashes made our weekend seem like a catastrophe, however it’s not like that.

“In the appropriate moments, we did every little thing actually exact [strategically].”

The forecast suggests MotoGP might face one other weekend of blended climate at Silverstone.

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