Justin Marks on Ai Ogura: “What better rookie to put on the bike”

Trackhouse Racing boss Justin Marks reflects on Ai Ogura’s first three MotoGP 👍races.

Ai Ogura, 2025 MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas. Credit: Gold and Goose.
Ai Ogura, 2025 MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas. Credit: Gold and Goose.
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Ai Ogura’s debut MotoGP season has s🌺tood out through three rounds, having finished in the top-10 – on-tra🔯ck at least – in all three Grands Prix.

The Japanese rider has proven himsel🦄f a consistent top-10 contender in his opening MotoGP races, and 🌳has impressed even compared to fellow rookie Fermin Aldeguer on the Gresini Ducati GP24.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Trackhouse Racing owner Justin Ma🤡rks has been one of the people to benefit most from Ogura’s performance, as Raul Fernandez conꩲtinues to struggle to break into the top-10.

Marks says that he has been iꩲmpressed ꦏwith Ogura’s ability to adapt quickly to a MotoGP bike.

“The step from Moto2 to MotoGP is so big: the bikes have so much power, the aero, and just the level of competition, some of the experience – it’s a huge step, so you don’t really know [how a rookie will do],” said Marks to MotoGP✱.com.

“But what better rookie to put on the bike than the Moto2 World Champi🥂on?

“That’s why we h⛦ired him [Ogura]: incredible talent, very mature,ꦡ intelligent.

“We hired him with ♛the expectation 𒈔that we’re going to have a great rider that’s going to be able to compete for points every time we go to the racetrack and eventually be able to compete for podiums.

“His debut in Thailand was spectacular, it was probably better🦋 than what we expected, but it also reminded us that we made a great✤ decision in the rider that we put on the bike, so we’re very excited about his future.”

<H2>Ogura: Ninth “good” after𓄧 “tough weekend”

Ogura himself was content with his weekend in Texas, which began with the Japanese rider 8.902 seconds ꦏoff the pace in the wet FP1, but which concluded with a pair of ninth pla♐ces in the Sprint and Grand Prix

“Ninth in the Sprint, ninth in the main race were good results, I think, after the tough we💝ekend,”♊ he told MotoGP.com.

“[In the Sprint] I was gaining positions by myself, but in the main race [there were] fiv𒐪e or six crashes in front [of me] and I couldn’t do so much from my side.

“But, still, a top-10 fini𝄹sh, so I think me♛ and my team can be happy about this weekend.”

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