“I am very happy to be able to wear the red color of the official team Ducati in MotoGP next season. Practically from the first contact with the Desmosedici GP I enjoyed riding it and I adapted well straight away.” These are the first words as a Ducati fan of Marc Marquezwho today was officially announced as the red’s official driver for 2025 and 2026. The news, which had spread at the end of the Italian GP weekend, was announced today.
on top of the world
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The goal of the eight-time world champion is clearly to return to the top of the MotoGP, where he has been missing since 2019, the year of the last world championship won with Honda. Difficult seasons followed from 2020, between injuries and Honda’s technical involution which pushed the champion to take the big step in 2024, that of leaving the Japanese manufacturer to move to Ducati, which has grown to become the reference bike of MotoGP, for this year in Team Gresini with the 2023 version. And it was an immediate feeling: “Since I tried the Desmosedici I understood that my goal was to continue on this path, continue to grow and move to the team where Pecco Bagnaia graduated world champion two years in a row.”
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thanks ducati
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Marquez, who is third in the World Championship with 136 points behind Jorge Martin (171) and Pecco Bagnaia (153), thanked Ducati for their trust: “I’m really happy to be able to take this big step starting from 2025 – he said Spanish – grateful for the trust that Ducati has placed in me. Finally, I want to thank Nadia, Carlo, Michele and the whole Gresini Racing family for opening the door to their team for me at a delicate moment in my career. Now we will continue to have fun and give the best in what remains of the current season, which is my priority at the moment.”
