Marc Marquez predicts that Mandalika and Sepang ought to show the toughest rounds of the flyaway sequence, as he closes in on the 2025 MotoGP crown.
The Ducati Lenovo rider suffered his first Dash fall of the 12 months at Misano, however victory within the Grand Prix meant he left the San Marino spherical with out shedding floor to brother Alex.
The final time Marc Marquez was outscored by the Gresini rider was at Jerez, again in April.
Marc has elevated or maintained his benefit for the 11 rounds since and now heads to Japan with a 182-point lead and his first title probability of the season.
Marc Marquez, 2024 Indonesian MotoGP
“I’ve by no means completed”
Motegi additionally kicks off a collection of ‘flyaway’ occasions, being adopted by Mandalika, Phillip Island and Sepang.
Requested which he expects to be probably the most troublesome, the winner of 11 of 16 GPs and 14 Sprints, replied: “Mandalika, along with Sepang.
“Mandalika, let’s see this 12 months if we will battle for victory, however in the meanwhile, I’ve by no means completed a Grand Prix race there!”
Mandalika joined the MotoGP calendar in 2022, when Marquez suffered a concussion after a large highside in heat up. Declared unfit to race, he was later identified with a brand new episode of diplopia.
2023 noticed Marquez crash out of each the Indonesian Dash and Grand Prix races in his last season at Repsol Honda.
The Spaniard reached the chequered flag for the primary time at Mandalika with third in final 12 months’s Dash for Gresini Ducati, earlier than an engine failure pressured him out of the Sunday race.
“I hope it is going to be the primary time that I end a Sunday race and let’s see if we will be on the rostrum,” Marquez stated.
Having claimed a primary Purple Bull Ring win this season, plus victory within the inaugural Balaton Park occasion, Mandalika and Portimao are actually the one venues on the present calendar that Marquez has not received at.
Marc Marquez, Marco Bezzecchi, Alex Marquez, 2025 San Marino MotoGP
In the meantime, Marquez has taken two victories from ten appearances on the Malaysian MotoGP, in 2014 and 2018.
“So Mandalika, along with Sepang, perhaps, are probably the most troublesome tracks – however you by no means know.
“As a result of [Misano] was a monitor that I like, however Bezzecchi was sooner than me or on the identical degree, very equal.
“Each race, there can be someone that can be super-fast, and a very powerful is to be with the highest guys.”
Alex Marquez (Jerez, Catalunya), Marco Bezzecchi (Silverstone), Francesco Bagnaia (COTA) and Johann Zarco (Le Mans) are the one different grand prix winners to this point this season.
