Marc Marquez hit again at critics who’ve claimed his MotoGP rivals haven’t been racing him onerous sufficient in 2025 following his Dutch Grand Prix win.
The manufacturing facility Ducati rider has taken management of the 2025 championship after three successive dash/grand prix doubles have put him 68 factors clear within the standings.
On the Dutch Grand Prix, he was pushed onerous within the dash by Alex Marquez after which once more within the grand prix by Marco Bezzecchi.
After the race, he responded to critics of his rivals, who – notably Alex Marquez – have been accused of not racing Marc Marquez the identical approach they do others.
Marc Marquez demanded “respect” for his rivals and mentioned he was “indignant” about what he was studying.
Within the newest Crash MotoGP Podcast, Senior Journalist Lewis Duncan argues that the criticism of Marquez’s rivals isn’t considering the character of racing with trendy bikes.
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“There’s solely a lot you are able to do,” Duncan started.
“And I feel one factor that isn’t taken into consideration with this criticism of Marc’s rivals not racing him as onerous, is these bikes are actually tough to race with.
“All of the aero, the entrance tyre stress, it’s more durable to make cleaner overtakes.
“We noticed that when this dash period got here into being that you simply had so many crashes from that as a result of everybody was panicked about tyre pressures, knew that it was tough to overhaul.
“So that you had numerous folks doing loopy issues at first of races. It’s calmed down a bit as a result of they’ve realised there’s not a lot you are able to do.
“A lot of it hinges on qualifying, when you get forward of a rival you’re in the most effective place doable.
“Assen is possibly a circuit that highlights the difficulty with overtaking on these bikes essentially the most.
“Suppose again to 2018 whenever you had 150-plus overtakes – you may’t have that anymore as a result of it’s a decent quick monitor and with the best way these bikes behave, it’s actually tough to race.
“And due to this fact it’s actually tough to arrange a clear overtake.
“Alex Marquez goes to method racing Marc Marquez otherwise as a result of there’s a dynamic there, however he’s not giving Marc a neater time as a result of Alex can also be a championship challenger.
“So, if he makes a mistake overtaking Marc, hits him, crashes himself, Marc stays up, Alex loses factors. So, you may’t make dangerous overtakes.
“You’ll be able to say Alex can take dangers, however whenever you had a 40-point hole coming into the weekend and we’ve seen already how shortly a niche for Marc can evaporate due to errors, Alex is sensible sufficient to know that to be ready to remotely beat Marc you need to be constant after which when the time involves maximise your pace, you’ve then constructed up the bottom work to capitalise on that.
“And conversely, when Marc makes a mistake, you’ve constructed up the bottom work to capitalise on that.
“So, in fact he’s not going to go gung-ho and throw the bike up the within. Similar with Bez as nicely within the grand prix.
“He pushed Marc actually onerous, however that’s a second place for an Aprilia group below loads of stress proper now that you simply’d be silly to throw away an enormous haul of factors only for the off-chance that you simply may have the ability to presumably get an overtake performed on Marc Marquez.
“I feel folks have possibly forgotten a little bit how racing works.”
Podcast host Jordan Moreland argues that Marc Marquez is solely in a position be tactically higher than his rivals when main, as a result of he is aware of how tough it’s to overhaul on these bikes.
“That means to reset and get on with the job [after crashes].
“He simply battered Bagnaia once more this weekend, which I feel Bagnaia – that was most likely his greatest weekend of the 12 months from begin to end.
“Clearly he had the dash race woes with the gas tank. I believed Bagnaia could be nearer within the race however Marc handled him no drawback within the early part.
“Bez was the one who stored him trustworthy, and that for Marc was simply the spectacular factor since you might see visually within the dash with Alex [Marquez] he was a lot sooner within the final sector however Marc positioned his bike so Alex couldn’t overtake him within the quick bits.
“He tactically had them beat, and it was notably spectacular given the feedback about folks not attacking him – particularly Alex – however how will you when he’s simply on this mode?”
