I think Martin shown consistency across a variety of tracks for sometime. That's more than a lot of really talented riders have done. Adaptability is another factor which you don't know until a rider actually switches. Some riders are fast on a certain bike and never again while others can adapt their riding style. Jorge Lorenzo was the former. Incredibly talented on the Yamaha M1 and never did well on anything else.

@@ExpatonTwoWheels Ducati never asked or listened to Lorenzo. When they changed the tank from his Ducati, Lorenzo started to get much better results. This was Lorenzo's No. 1 problem. The second problem was that high officials of the administration did not want Lorenzo.

@@shadockan74 well, for not wanting him, they sure paid him well. I think the philosophy in Ducati is that you prove yourself and then we'll develop the bike to you. They're not easy to work for. They ran Dovi off. He was their star back then. I think Martin may be a lot happier at Aprilia, but with less podiums

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Oh, I doubt he'll actually lap the Aprilia!

@@tonyb9735 🤣🤣🤣 In your dreams.

@@user-fc7li1tu5e it's the only way he'll be looking at the back of the Aprilia 👍😆

EXACTLY!! Expat left that Consideration...out...Completely. Thank you for stating...the obvious.

It's not... Look at what aleix did a few years ago. He's changed the last two years. The bike didn't. He was unwilling to take risks anymore. He has expressed safety concerns alot. I think it just comes with age. You start seeing things differently. Martin is still willing and capable to ride on the edge and take whatever risks necessary. I think he's going to put that Aprilia in the podium alot. I see him winning the championship. He's definitely going to want his pound of flesh from Ducati.

Yah, but Aprilia is a finicky type of bike. That needed to be ridden in the particular manner unlike the Ducati that can able to suit to most of the riders with various rising style. Although Martin's arrival is huge for them. As they have landed best & fast rider that can able to suit the Rs-GP's character. Of course it needs some improvements to get it imprinted to him. But what I am worried is Bezzechi. The guy is fast & talented on a bike. No doubt about that but it seems he has been slow to find a solution when he has problem. Like this year with his Gp23 eventhough he already knew what he needs to do.

For sure. How many riders can consistently come from 13th or 14th and finish on the podium? Marc did it two races in a row. Martin deserves a good ride and he got it, but maybe not on his first choice of bike.

@@ExpatonTwoWheels Exactly. Imagine if he was on a 24 spec Ducati? He wouldn’t be leaving behind the other factory bikes like he does with the other 23 spec bikes. But he would still be leaving them behind for sure. He’s had some very quick team mates in the past that he’s ended the careers of, like Dani Pedrosa and Jorgé Lorenzo for example. As for Jorgé Martin it’ll definitely be interesting to see how he gets on with the Aprilia next year. It’s not a bad bike, it’s the next best bike after the Ducatis. That’s why the Ducati bosses couldn’t afford to lose Marc to them or KTM as they know Marc can make up for that lack of a few tenths a lap. With Jorge ok, he wanted the factory team bike. But it’s worth remembering that at the end of last year it was him that gave Ducati that ultimatum. He could have still had the factory bike with factory support with Pramac but he chose another manufacturer instead. One thing about Aprilia is they’re very loyal to their riders and will give him everything that he asks for. Unlike Ducati or even KTM to a certain extent, who just bin riders when they struggle a bit.

I think it's also important to note that the gp23 that Marc is using is the first spec of that bike from 2023, we all saw how hard a time the factory riders were having on this version of the bike at the start of 2023. It is not the gp23 that finished the year winning the championship with pecco. Personally I think it's truly amazing what Marc is doing on that bike, qualifying on Saturday when Marc was almost half a second up before crashing shower signs of the old honda days where he can literally pull a crazy lap time from nowhere. Marc on a gp25 probably 4 or 5 steps forward from the bike he has now is frighteningly formidable. Marcs 2024 mugello race time was 22 seconds faster then that 2023 race winning time.

@@scottmurray2890 You’re absolutely bang on the money mate. He’s riding the bike that Zarco had last year. The 2 factory bikes went to Rossi’s VR46 team. Marc had a new exhaust valve to test Monday but because of the rain he just did a few practice starts. I’m 42 and my whole family are bikers. Even my Sister rides she has a her own KZfaq channel working her bike. I’ve been watching MotoGP all my life and have been to quite a few races that’s one of the beauties of living in the UK. Assen is just a few hours drive away through the channel tunnel and I’ve been to Mugello once in 2006 at the height of the Rossi era. I would say Marquez is the best rider I’ve seen in my lifetime. The way he rides is unreal the way he was hanging off that Honda when I watched him at Silverstone, I’ll never forget it. He looked like he was the verge of crashing he was that far leaned over. Casey Stoner is another one that I remember well. The way he blipped the throttle through the corners on that Ducati. The bike sounded like tearing metal as he accelerated. Kevin Schwantz also on the lucky strike Suzuki sliding it down Craner curves at the old Donington Park was wild. He would leave a black line every time and sometimes with smoke coming off the rear tyre. One year my Mum was going through some old photos and she had a photo taken with her sitting on Barry Sheene’s GP bike with him. Sorry I was rabbling on there lol. But yeah Marquez is unreal and it just shows you how bad Honda are at the moment. They’re riding round dead last ( bear in mind this year’s bike is an improvement from last year) when he didn’t crash he was still getting 7th place finishes. I see a tv interview with one of the Ducati engineers and he said the telemetry data from Marquez is unbelievable how he rides the bike and is able to make up the difference with the GP23 which lacks significant traction out the corner compared to the GP24 machines.

@@smith2781 I couldn't agree more with everything you say. Personally I'm loving all the haters going back under there rocks. Im 37, raced at club level and watched MotoGP all my life, grew up watching rossi, capirossi,harada etc I was and still am a Rossi fan, but Marc 🫣 I can see how some of the riders get that good, talent, hard work, practice. But Marc, Casey and probably toprak I just do not understand how it's even possible what they do, it genuinely baffles me, that for me is what separates them from anyone else.

He’s not on the fastest bike. On average, he’s the fastest on the grid come sprint day.

That's because there is 8 Ducati's on the track.

I would argue that they have the potential to do so only in occasional races. In my opinion, they do not yet have the potential to beat Ducati over a season.

@@tonyb9735 let’s see 2026 👍

@@selbstsein967 Indeed, in either case, let's hope it's a season of great racing 🙂

I think that the Aprilla even with Martin onboard is incapable of beating the Ducatis consistently with a rider like Marquez aboard. Time will tell which one of us will have a more disappointing 2025 season..... 🙂

dirty how?

Oh cry me a river. In 2015 a slow rider thought he could get one of the faster riders out of the way and finish second in every race and win a title. Conconcted a conspiracy theory and sent his rabid zombies after that rider. But he miscalculated who he was messing with and it blew up in his face and he never amounted to anything ever since.

@@mignik01 Indeed, and it's not as if Rossi was above fighting dirty when it suited him.

Agree 👍

They just announced Bastianini is going to KTM. Hoping Joe Roberts does well.

@@ExpatonTwoWheels DiGi, the most underrated rider out there, to replace the hot and cold Top Gun.

@@ExpatonTwoWheels you mean tech 3 gas gas? there are already Pedro and Brad in KTM factory team.

@@akashnag3879 Tech3

MM and Pecco will be like Dovisioso and Iannone ?

@@gbone7581 I agree with you. Like Doohan and Criville as well.

Are we watching the same sport? Team dynamics in MotoGP is what exactly? One rider wingman the other? Why don't just give Karel Abraham the 2nd factory bike and call it a day..another case stunted mental development

" On the other hand Mark will destroy Ducati's team dynamics." This is nonsense. Marquez is no Rossi, he has never clashed with his teammates. Mind you, he has never had a teammate capable of competing with him, so he has had no reason to fall out with them. In all honesty, I don't expect that to change much next year.

You nailed it, Jarrett! GO MARTINATOR

The only reason Marquez got hurt was through trying to over ride the uncompetitive Honda. As for disrupting the team, he was the top rider at Repsol Honda so rightly had a say on who got what parts and data. Rossi did the same as have all no 1 riders. Stoner just has a chip on his shoulder and Pedrosa wasn’t complaining, just highlighting what happens to you as second rider. Ducati operate a different system giving all factory riders the option on upgrades and data.

Bastianini to KTM will also hurt Ducati.

@@midhc5072 Yeah and MM was NEVER able to develop the bike, like for instance Doohan was, or Rossi. That was the glaring elephant in the room.

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Spot on 👍🏼

absolut agree with you buddy ! and nobody knows what will happen from 2027, so MM93 might be worth its weight in gold for Ducati.

Totally agree

More in depth..situational FACTS...thanks.

Totally agree, Ducati know exactly what they are doing. Marc's as fast, fearless and determined as he ever was. If they didn't sign him he'd have won the title for another factory.

Are you really dumb? He did 6 consecutive podiums with 2023 bike fighting with 2024s.

The big question is when will u take the yellow nob out from ur gob 😂😂😂😂

Lol, Pecco won't even see which way Marc went. Bagnaia, Quatararo and Mir all owe their championships to a badly broken arm and a badly designed Honda.

He’s already on podiums on last year’s machine, do you even watch moto gp? Typical salty 46 fan comment.

@@jarlborg1531a Honda that was developing only around marc…so if that bike was miserable, it’s marc to blame for that and all those marc fans bragging of his skills…now they are crying for gp24 ,they know he can’t win on the 2nd best bike on the grid 😂

WTF? That's exactly what he was doing season after season, winning championships on a bike that nobody else could even get into the top 5. Have you ever actually watched MotoGP?

@@tonyb9735 That "Bike" was tailor made for him, He kept telling the engineers I don't want a new chassis I want more power, until he couldn't ride it anymore and kept high-siding it, so he jumped ship because he and the team couldn't find a solution quick enough.

@@user-fc7li1tu5e Oh don't be silly. Until he had his accident, he was the absolute dominant force in MotoGP. His last season before the accident was one of the best seasons ever put together by any rider in the history of MotoGP. It was only after he was injured, and the other riders had a greater input, that the bike stopped winning. Even then, despite carrying an ongoing injury which required further operations to correct, he was the only Honda rider capable of winning a race or even of putting the bike on the podium. The truth, if you are even vaguely interested in hearing it (I strongly suspect that you are not), is that Honda failed to keep pace with the development of aero. That was not the fault of Marquez or, indeed, of the other Honda riders.

MM won't listen to that.

@@gbone7581 he should.it happened while he was at honda with lorenzo

You think there would be no ego clash between Pecco and Martin? That's hilarious.

@mignik01 no I don't and it's because they've already been racing against each other on identical bikes so there's no "he's on this years bike and I'm on last years bike" ego battle .pecco and Jorge bothe came into motogp with ducati so there's no "outsider" ego.and since both pecco and Martin are gonna be around for a good while,there's really no "I'm in a hurry to get my next title"ego which is what hurt Lorenzo so bad with ducati AND repsol.marquez AND ducati japped martin of his shot at a title with ducati and even though that's ego on Martin's side,he earned a shot in the red suit and marquez has not.marquez should've been thrilled with a ride at primacy but he let his ego get in the way

@@bedfordforrest4426 I love that you think Martin will accept being the second rider to Pecco. Yeah that's never gonna happen. There will be friction either way. So if you are gonna have friction, don't do it for Martin. Do it for Marquez. Marc has destroyed everyone on the same bike. Two of them are race winners. And his lap by lap average position is SIX ahead of the next best GP23. They have seen the data and didn't want him to go to a rival. Out of the two, they'd rather see Martin riding for a rival and not Marquez.