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The second round of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship confirmed what we saw in the first, namely that Marc Marquez will be really hard to beat this season. In fact, the Spaniard repeated his perfect weekend in Buriram and also on the Termas de Rio Hondo track in Argentina he dominated qualifying, Sprint Race and Grand Prix, walking away from the track with full points. Behind him again closed his brother Alex, never so incisive and author of a truly impressive start to the season, who is overshadowing a Pecco Bagnaia for now forced to run defensively enough to finish Sunday at the foot of the podium, also beaten by Franco Morbidelli.
This is our Carletto Pernat's account of the Grand Prix, as always accompanied by an excellent glass of Prosecco DOC.
"Argentine Grand Prix, what can I say, Marc Marquez has become galactic, while Alex Marquez is at least stellar, this must be said. It is the two brothers who are monopolizing MotoGP as Ducati is doing it. Let's go back to the old days, top 5 places, 5 Ducatis, I think things have changed very little from last year, despite the various concessions, despite the money invested by Aprilia, Yamaha and Honda and not KTM unfortunately because of the financial situation.
I think if we go at this pace the World Championship will take a turn that is good for Marquez and bad for the show. He's really got himself together, he's back to the Marquez he was before, he's been working a lot on his physique and then if you put the phenomenon like Marc on the best bike, I think there can't be any other result but this. If you've noticed, Marc doesn't crash anymore, he rides very clean.
In my opinion he has worked, I repeat, a lot on his physique, on his shoulder, on the crashes he had and now it is very difficult really to beat him, not to say almost impossible. A beautiful third place by Franco Morbidelli , who is coming back to the Franco of the Yamaha days when he was vice world champion. He's bad, he rides this bike well, but this 2024 bike they all ride well. The leap forward, beyond Marquez, all the riders who have had the 2024 this year have done it, you see it also di Giannantonio, beautiful race his too. Alex Marquez then has made a remarkable leap forward from last year, both as a rider and as a mentality, he is fighting a lot with his brother.
So I would say a big round of applause to Ducati and to Marquez who is back to his old self, and coming back to his old self it is almost impossible to beat him. Does Bagnaia know anything about that? Pecco definitely has problems not only technical, but I don't think it's those because then the same bike as Marc, their bikes are identical. He's probably more professional and rides to the maximum when the bike is 100 percent right, but it has to be said that he's suffering a lot from his teammate. The others are suffering it less because they're not his teammates and so they experience it a little bit outside. Pecco is inside the box and is probably seeing the difference and this gap in my opinion is 60 percent a mental problem.
It will not be easy for Ducati from the various Tardozzi to Gigi to handle this situation, because Pecco feels he is number one in the Ducati box and he is right. He sees himself eroding this leadership day by day and I hope he will definitely have a tailspin because he is so strong, he has won two world championships in MotoGP and it is no accident. Come on Pecco even if right now it is maybe the most difficult situation of his career, also because we are at the beginning of the championship.
As for the others, I would say that the first time Honda even puts so many riders, even three in the top ten given that Ogura was disqualified for the problem of the software not being regular. Of all the Manufacturers I think Honda is the one that all in all has worked better. We were all thinking Yamaha, however Honda has an exceptional Zarco, an excellent Mir and a Marini that is growing.
In these Grands Prix we have seen in front 5 Ducatis, 2 KTMs and 3 Hondas, that's a lot. Who is a bit disappointing but also because of a lot of bad luck is Aprilia. Martin is missing and so it is very difficult to try to understand his value. However, Ogura showed that this bike is very performing, too badabout Bezzecchi's race, the problems are mainly on the time attack and the starts. If you miss the time attack you don't start in the first two rows and it starts to become arduous to try to make podiums and the starts are very important. Come on now Marco because you are so strong and two years ago you showed what you are worth.
A little bit in the corner the Yamaha, from her we all expected more, even in practice we saw it. Instead something that is still not working is there, maybe there is still some important development missing, maybe there is some part of the development that is not right. Seeing Quartararo there makes it clear that we're not quite there yet. But otherwise I think we're at the beginning, anyway it's a good championship because in the meantime the houses are working, the concessions are needed, let's see a little bit the continuation, but it's clear that there is still a Ducati domination, like last year. Maybe even worse, because now everybody has the Ducati 2024 and this bike is really unbeatable now. Let's wait for Austin, even though that is Marc Marquez's terrain, everyone thinks he will have an advantage there as well."
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