Marc Marquez makes big MotoGP title battle claim: ‘Alex Marquez is my main opponent’
Factory Ducati rider reckons his𓆏🌠 brother, not his team-mate, is his strongest MotoGP title threat

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez has boldly claimed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez is “my main opponent” in the 2025 MotoGP title battle, after narrowly beating him at 📖the Argentina Grand P꧋rix.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Factory Ducati rider Marc Marquez completed his second pole/spr༒int/grand prix sweep of the season this weekend in Argentina, but was pushed hard by his younger brother Alex Marquez throughout.
Alex Marquez missed out victory in the sprint by just under a second, while he led for much of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the grand prix be🏅fore ultimate🤡ly ending the race 1.3s adrift at the chequered flag.
However, the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Gresini Ducati rider’s pace pushed Marc Marquez into an early misꦬtake on lap four that saw him cede the lead and also 𒊎forced him into several other errors later on in the race.
Marc Marquez leads the championship by 16 points over his brother, with his expected nearest challenger 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia 31 points adrift in third after finishꦫing 5.536s back in fourth on Sunday♋ in Argentina.
It marks Bagnaia’s first grand prix of🏅f𒀰 the podium since the Emilia Romagna GP.
Asked afte🔴r the race if older brothers are meant to go easy on their younger siblings, Marc Marquez replied: “Not always. When you pass 20 years old, 22, then it’s equal!
“But Alex today I’m very impressed about his ridingᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ style. Hꦡe was super smooth.
“And I know 🍎when he is super convinced he is able to win a world championship, like he did in Moto3, in Moto2.
“So, at the end he is the main opponent for the championship.💙🐠”
Marc Marquez thought about letting Alex Marquez win
Marc Marquez took the holeshot from pole and led the first three laps, befo🦩re running wide at the start of the fourth at Turn 1 and letting Alex Marquez through.
The factory Ducati rider would event💎ually get back into the lead 🅰on lap 21 of 25, but admits at one stage while riding behind his brother he though about conceding defeat.
“Today I’m impressed♌ about my brother, about Alex,”𝔍 he added.
“In one part of the race I was thinking to finish second🧔 because he was riding super smooth, super good, always keeping the corner speed.
“I mean his tyre was not smoking. I said ‘ok, this guy today has🐼 another level’.
“Then in the end I survived. I took ཧa risk, as you saw, I took a lot of ris༺ks - maybe too much in some points of the race.
“But happy to go out with 37 points again and continue with a very good atmosphere inside the garage, because the Ducati Lenovo team did an amazing jobꩵ. But also inside the family.”
Marc Marquez also revealed that he sh♌ared his strategy for the race with his younger brother, with the latt🌄er following this even while leading.
“Today it w𒐪as not the plan to be 𓄧behind Alex,” he added.
“The plan was to try to lead the race al𝓡l⛎ the race.
“Even before the race, one of the points we have between us is we are very honest and I said to him ‘I will try to🧔 lead the race, and if you are behind stay there and on lap 12, 14 I will give my attack’.
“And he said ‘Ok, I will do the same’. And in fact, he was leading the race andᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ in those laps 12, 14 he go into the 1m38-lows and he did the same strategy.
“The most important thing is we are very 𒉰honest between us. He will win, some races, mo♏re than one. So, I will be very happy. And if I’m winning I’m happy too.”
