Within the newest version of the Crash MotoGP Podcast, the crew asks will Marc Marquez deal with the Japanese Grand Prix like a standard weekend with the title on the road?
This weekend’s seventeenth spherical of the 2025 season sees MotoGP head to its first abroad race outdoors of Europe and the UK since April’s Qatar Grand Prix.
Motegi has been the setting for a lot of dramatic races over time in addition to the scene of quite a few title victories.
Marc Marquez celebrated MotoGP titles at Motegi in 2014, 2016 and 2018 when he was with Honda. The circuit additionally represented the final place he scored a podium with HRC earlier than making the choice to depart for Gresini Ducati late on in 2023.
After successful the current San Marino Grand Prix, the manufacturing facility Ducati rider involves Japan together with his first alternative to win a seventh premier class title and ninth of his profession general.
To take action, he must outscore Alex Marquez by simply three factors throughout the entire weekend to seal the deal.
So, will he deal with Japan otherwise to earlier rounds?
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“I feel it’s very a lot a case of when not if now,” Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren stated.
“However nonetheless, as he stated himself in San Marino, it’s going to be completely different. He’ll attempt to do it as a standard weekend. Three factors [to win]. Must be just about a formality, however you by no means fairly know. However even when it doesn’t, it rolls over to the following weekend.
“It is going to be completely different and occurring at Motegi, which was beforehand the house race for Honda. I suppose the one attention-grabbing factor can be how a lot does he deal with it as a standard weekend?
“Will he be what Alex does? If Alex is nowhere close to the entrance will that take the stress of Marc much more?
“Or if Alex is on the entrance, will he attempt to increase his recreation to get it settled this weekend on the first likelihood, or will he take the Catalunya method when he wasn’t quickest and took the factors? So, that’s the one query mark.
“However it’s simply closing the circle for Marc that started together with his final title in 2019 and all the pieces that has occurred since.”
Crash Senior Journalist Lewis Duncan added: “I feel Marc has to deal with it like a standard weekend.
“He’s clever sufficient to know that if he lets off, he begins letting [thoughts of] the championship creep in, then that’s when the errors creep in and he doesn’t should be doing that.
“So, he’ll go and he’ll push, and that’s what Marquez does. That’s the best way he’ll need to win the championship. When has Marc ever wobbled round to a seventh or an eighth, simply gotten to what he must do to win a championship?
“Assume the final time he received a championship, in Thailand [in 2019], towards Fabio [Quartararo]. That was a very pointless battle. He didn’t want to do this.
“He may have simply sat behind Fabio, however he needed to win and he received the championship with an incredible battle. He is aware of one of the best ways for him is to maintain the stress on.”
