Marc Marquez “tactical genius” overcame “mental hurdle” to take an iron grip

Marc Marquez was "rattled by miඣstakes" but is now harde♔r to beat than ever in 2025

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

The “tactic genius” of Marc Marquez has been f🐈eted after he took command of the MotoGP championshipꦛ race.

Marquez is now 93 points - an ominous total - ahead of third-placed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia, his factory Ducati teammate.

Gresini’s Alex Marquez is his🐻 older brother’s🅷 closest competition in the title scrap heading into Mugello next weekend.

But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez’s ability to shake off two errors - at COTA and Jerez - earlier this season to control last week’s Aragon💮 MotoGP was a surefire sign that he has an iron grip over the championship, it has been claimed.

“He spoke about it all weekend - I think there’s an element of him being rattled by these mistakes,” Lewis Duncan told the Crash Moto🎃GP podcast.

“He said ‘Ducati understand the mistakes’ but he must not be super sure,🍸 because his feeling with the bike was good.

“It was a real mental hurdle to get over, like Jorge Martin in Indonesia🃏 last 🦩year. He crashed in the sprint, thought about it, and managed to overcome it.

“It feels like a big hurdle has 🎐been surmounted here. Aragon is a strong circuit for him but so was COTA.

“As a ꦚfactory rider he is tight-lipped about what has changed on the bike. It’s very hard to tell. It makes things complica💙ted to understand.

“Fundamentally𒆙, they’ve gone back to something which gave him the feeling he ha🉐d at the start of the season.

“When he’s like that - in Thailand, Argentina, Austin before his crash - he’s two-and-a-half se𓄧conds up the road from Pecco.

“If he’s finally over the hurdle of making mis𒉰takes o💙n Sundays, it’s another element that his rivals cannot use. They can’t pressure him because he won’t crack.

“We are now entering a new phase in the championship. One where he will probably s🐈tretch his legs.

“I d🐎on’t think it will look particularly good for a🃏nyone who isn’t Marc Marquez!”

'Unpredictable' Marc Marquez a 'tactical genius'

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

Jordan Moreland added: “He chips away, waits for🐻 mistakes for anyone chasing him, then it goes up and up and up…

“He figures it out eventually.”

Lewis Duncan continued: “Part of the problem🥀 i💞s that it’s unpredictable what he’s going to do.

“The riders say on Friday that he is a step ahead so we assum𓄧e he will lead from the front. But we have the sprint, and Alex Marquez is in front༺. There’s a chance to do something…

“He pushes, he c🍸hews up the tyres, and Marc comes through 🍌anyway…

“Instead of finishing seco𒅌nd,💃 [Alex] finishes third.

“That’s the real tactical genius of Marc. He is able to adapt on the f𝓀ly, to the point where others think a door has ope𓂃ned so they change how they’re riding completely, then get stung even more.

“It’s a hard one 🅺to battle with, and th♕ey know that.

“There isn’t much more that they can do.”

A brief problem with front end fe☂eling of his Ducati GP25 at Silverstone was shaken off by Marquez at Aragon.

He has adapted better to this year’s ♏Desmosedici than teammate Bagnaia, whose feeling has been lacking all year despite a slightly resurgence at Aragon.

Marquez is hunting for a ninth world titl𝕴e in total this year, his first with the factory Ducati team.

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