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At the end of the Qatar Grand Prix Alex Marquez broke the spell that from the first race until then had seen him as encapsulated in a magic bubble of seven consecutive second places. The derailment from the silver rails, however, did not come through a victory, as he would have hoped, but with a sixth place that came at the end of a chaotic and somewhat bungled race, marked in the opening bars by contacts with his older brother and Fabio Di Giannantonio, costing him a long lap penalty.
After losing the championship lead to the hitherto unplayable MM93, for the European landing of the 2025 season the youngest of the Marquez brothers will attempt on the home track of Jerez to return to the upper echelons of the standings to which he had become so attached during the extracontinental stages. Here in 2017 he obtained his first career victory in Moto2, and it would not be bad at all to celebrate his 29th birthday yesterday by giving himself the first podium in MotoGP on the historic Andalusian track.
"Yes, it would be very nice, but we have to approach this weekend with the same mentality we had in the first four races of this season, always trying to do our best. Up to this point we have been very fast, however now we are in Jerez, a totally different track than the four tracks we faced at the beginning of the season, so we have to be focused and give 100 percent. Obviously being here in Jerez is something extremely special for me, my first victory in Moto2 I got here, however we cannot lose our method, we have to do the same things and work in the same way. With this basis we will try to do our best to win."
How do you think you can beat the current and so complete version of your brother Marc?
"In motorcycle racing there are no secrets, you have to work harder, you have to go faster than your opponents. Marc is in very good condition and also in a very good mood right now. But for sure there will come a track in which he will struggle a little bit more, because it is impossible to always be the strongest in 22 races, although he is able to turn things around even when not everything goes perfectly. To beat him you have to be perfect in every session, that's the key point, but if you can do that and he stays in the state he's in now, it will remain difficult to stay ahead of him. Reaching Marc's level is where my limit and all the other Ducati riders are, it's the little details we have to take care of, because we have a pretty similar bike, so he's setting the limit and that's where we have to get to by perfecting the details."
As of today, you're his first pursuer in the championship. Do you think it could become difficult in the long run to handle the pressure of a fight between the two of you?
"We still have the whole Championship to go, so I hope I'll have this problem! We'll only see in the last races if there's going to be a championship played out between two brothers. That would be a nice problem, and I really hope I'll have to face it," #73 said, smiling.
Going back to what happened in Qatar to Maverick Viñales, what's your opinion on the tire pressure rule?
"I understand that it can be a disappointing thing to run into this kind of penalty when it happens to you, but it's a rule that applies to everyone."
