MotoGP championship chief Marc Marquez has been tipped to finish a nine-year await a maiden victory on the Pink Bull Ring this weekend.
The manufacturing facility Ducati rider comes into the Austrian Grand Prix main the championship by 120 factors, having amassed eight wins and 11 dash victories from the opening 12 rounds.
Properly on his method to a seventh premier class title, MotoGP 2025’s resumption on the Pink Bull Ring poses a hurdle Marc Marquez has thus far been unable to surmount for the reason that Austrian Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 2016.
Pink Bull Ring is one among 4 circuits on the present calendar that Marquez hasn’t gained at in his grand prix profession.
He got here shut in 2017, 2018 and 2019 in last-lap battles with former Ducati riders Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo. However second stays his greatest.
Already in 2025 Marquez has ended prolonged win droughts, most notably in Qatar.
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On the newest Crash MotoGP Podcast, host Jordan Moreland believes Pecco Bagnaia will supply Marquez a stiff problem this weekend having gained the final three Pink Bull Ring races.
“It’s a circuit that has loads of character and it’s one which Marc Marquez will need to be ticking off his listing, as a result of if you have a look at his earlier outcomes he’s by no means gained right here and he’s come shut so many occasions earlier than,” he stated.
“However now he’s on the bike that beat him so many occasions by means of these years, it appears like a weekend that’s arrange properly.
“However he does have a problem from Pecco Bagnaia, as a result of I’ll say Pecco completely loves and he’s gained the final three editions of.”
Marc Marquez tipped to finish nine-year wait
Marc Marquez
Nevertheless, Crash Senior Journalist Lewis Duncan doesn’t see Bagnaia having the ability to replicate his previous Austrian Grand Prix type and expects Marquez to proceed his run of 5 successive Sunday wins.
“It’s an attention-grabbing one,” he added.
“We’ve had just a few of those circuits already the place Marc up to now hasn’t gained at or hasn’t gained at for a really very long time, and has type of rewritten the script there.
“So, I believe there might be lots of eager eyes on what is going to occur on the Pink Bull Ring.
“Based mostly on present type, based mostly on the present efficiency of the bike, it’s actually arduous to look previous Marc successful once more.
“I believe we’re type of past the purpose now of hoping Pecco Bagnaia’s going to problem as a result of I simply don’t assume he’ll.
“Even he after Brno has thought of that to be a bridge too far. He is aware of that his rival now’s Alex Marquez and making an attempt to consider beating Marc simply isn’t possible.
“Marc has gone nicely at this circuit. All the last-lap defeats have type of muddied the truth that he’s been there usually on Honda equipment that sometimes struggled at low-gear acceleration circuits.
“And he was fairly fast right here final yr on the GP23. It’s not as if his greatest outcome have been seventh or ninth.
“He’s been inches away from successful right here earlier than. Should you contemplate this bike is suited to the circuit and Marc’s previous type right here, I believe a repeat of that might be unlikely. I believe we’ll see a reasonably managed race.”
