Alex Marquez takes on the role of team leader at the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Gresini Racing team this year after Marc Marquez vacated the team at the end of 2꧂024, something which brings a different kind of pressure for the two-tim𒁃e World Champion.

Such was the competitiveness of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez last year, younger brother 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez joked that he’s not regretting the #93’s movജe to the factory Du✨cati team.

“I’m not missing him because he was putting me behind in all the weekends, so it’s better he’s in another box,” Marquez joked on Thursday (27 February) ahead of this weekend’s MotoGP Thai Grand Prix.

Speaki💎ng more seriously, Marquez added: “Apart from jokes, I mean to have Marc [Marquez] is great for some things and bad for some other ones, and we know which ones: the pressure, and the focus th🌺at was on the box was quite high.”

In comparison, for 2025 the younger Marquez brother is partne🅘red by rookie Fermin Aldeguer, making sixth-year Marquez the rider in the Gresini team with the pressure to score the big points this year.

“I have the pressure from the team that🥀 I’m the rider that needs to make the results, but wh🧜en you have a good bike and you feel great on the bike you don’t feel that pressure,” Marquez said.

“When you’re struggling you feel it, but when you are fast and you are able to do the things that you want to d𝐆o on the bike you don’t feel the pressure.

“We have a really nice group of people and we are really relaxed because we know that we have all the tools to make🎃 good things.”

Alex Marquez: “I felt really great from the first day”

Increasing expectations further for Marquez is the arrival in the Gresini Ducati box of the Desmosedi𝓰ci GP24, which last year won 16 of 20 Grands Prix.

It’s a bike that M﷽a🅺rquez says is helping him exploit his strengths on the bike, particularly on corner entry.

“Last year it’s where we were struggling a l𒁏ot, the entry, and how to turn ♉the bike,” he explained.

“I was losing a lot at the apex that normally🌸 is my strong point and also it’s normally when with the GP22 I was able to do the corner speed, and with this one [GP24] it’s like that bike.”

The GP24 is a✨lso a bike that is behaving as Mar🐽quez expected it to based on what he observed when racing against it last year.

“Whatღ is true is that Ducati analysed things really deep, and all the information we got last year is exactly what you feel on▨ the bike and is exactly what I was expecting,” he said.

“But one thing is what the engineers say 🌺to you and another thing is what you can do with the track.

“But I felt really great from the first day in Ca♔talunya riding this bike, and I feel like I can do what I want to do with this bike.”

Despite his positive impre🌱ssion of the bike, Marquez𒁏 is trying to keep a lid on expectations.

“Before we start, every ri൩der wa🍰nts to think that it’s his own year, but later on you need to demonstrate on-track,” he said.

“You can think that [it’s your year], but later on if you📖’re not able to make the re⛎sults [it doesn't matter].

“So, I prefer to have low expectations, or realistic e🍨xpectations, [...] because if you have really high expectations and you’re not able to go there, it’s hard, it’s what happened to me last year.

“So, I prefer to go i🍸nto the season in a low profile and later on we’ll see where we can be.”