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He was one of the leading figures in the cremier Class of MotoGP in the 1990s, to the extent that he finished third in 1997 behind a 500-class giant like Mick Doohan and also Tadayuki Okada. Nobuatsu Aoki has long been merely a knowledgeable spectator and, as such, has acknowledged marc Marquez's supremacy. Marc is, at this time, in a state of grace after the all the difficulties he encountered since his injury in Jerez in 2020.
"It's like seeing the Marc of the Honda era again. He possesses exceptional riding skills, The reason why can make any bike perform in an incredible manner. His real talent lies in being able to ride beyond the inherent potential of the bike he has at his disposal," he stated, as reported by AS.
According to Aoki, the GP25 isn't at the same level as the GP24. "The deficit is mainly in engine braking, since the current Desmosedici has drastically reduced the loss of friction. Bagnaia seems to suffer most from this change, which is why he'd like to return to the previous bike, but he's in a complicated situation," he explained.
And this is where the 32-year-old from Cervera could, in the long run, play a bad trick on the Borgo Panigale-based manufacturer. "At first glance, what he's managing to do is fantastic. However, when you take the bike to one-hundred-and-twenty percent of its capabilities, you risk making the engineers lose direction, like what happened with the RC213V. The risk is that you make it impossible to understand how much the vehicle can do at one hundred percent. In fact, a bike was created in HRC that could only be ridden by someone at one-hundred-and-twenty percent, and that was Marquez," he emphasized.
For now, they seem to have averted this scenario, but 2026 remains an unknown. "Today's Ducati is versatile, and anyone can ride it. But, next year, everything could change. Since the Iberian is achieving certain results, the engineers might think it's the best version of the Desmosedici and complicate life for Pecco and the satellite teams," he concluded.
