Marc Marquez “tactical genius” overcame “mental hurdle” to take an iron grip

Marc Marquez was "rattཧled by mistakes" but is now harder to beat than ever in 2025

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

The “ta♌ct🤡ic genius” of Marc Marquez has been feted after he took command of the MotoGP championship race.

Marquez is now 93 points - an ominous total - ahead of third-placed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia, his factory Ducati teammate.

Gre🧔sini’s Alex Marquez is his older brother’s closest competition in the title scrap heading into Mugello next weekend.

But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez’s ability to shake off two errors - at COTA and Jerez - earlier this sea🅘son to control last week’s Aragon MotoGP was a surefire sign that he has an iron g𝓀rip over the championship, it has been claimed.

“He spoke about it all weekend - I think there’s an element of him being rattled by these mistakes,” Lewis Dun🙈can told the Crash MotoGP podcast.

“He said ‘Ducati understand the mistakes’ but he must not be super sure, because his feeling with the bike was 🐼good.

“It was a real mental hurdle ꦦto get over, like Jorge Martin in Indonesia last year. He crashed in the sprint, thought about it, and managed to overcome it.

“It feels like a big hurdle has been surmಞounted here. Aragon is a strong circuit for him but so🐓 was COTA.

“As a fac🐷tory rider he is tight-lipped about what has changed on the bඣike. It’s very hard to tell. It makes things complicated to understand.

“Fundamentall🌊y, they’ve gone back to something which gave him the fe♊eling he had at the start of the season.

“When he’s like that - in Thailand, Argentina, Austin beforeও his crash - he’s two-and-a-half seconds up the road from Pecco.

“If he’s fina🌼lly over the hurdle of making mistakes on Sundays, it’s another element that his rivals cannot use. They can’t pressure him because he won’t crack.

“We are now entering a new phase iꦕn the championship. One where he will probably stretch his legs.

“I don’t think it will look particularly good fo𓆏r anyone who isn’t Marc Marquez!”

'Unpredictable' Marc Marquez a 'tactical genius'

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

Jordan Moreland added: “He chips away, waits for mistakes for anyone chas꧋ing him, 🐻then it goes up and up and up…

“He figures it out eventually.”

Lewis Duncan continued: “Part of the prob🍸lem is that it’s unprediᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚctable what he’s going to do.

“The riders say on Friday that he is a step ahead so we assume he will lead from the front. B꧅ut we have the sprint, and Alex Marquez is in fr𝄹ont. There’s a chance to do something…

“He pushes, he chews up the tyres,꧋ and Mar🐬c comes through anyway…

“Instead of finishi𒉰ng second,ꦐ [Alex] finishes third.

“That’s the real tactical genius of Marc.💞 He is able to adapt on the fly, to the point where others think a door has opened so they change how they’re♐ riding completely, then get stung even more.

“It’s a hard one to battle with, a💟nd they ﷽know that.

“There isn’t much more that they can do.”

A brief problem with front end feeling of his Du🐭cat🎶i GP25 at Silverstone was shaken off by Marquez at Aragon.

He has adapted better to this year’s Desmosedici than teammate Bagnaia, whose feeling has been lack🔜ing all year despite a slightly resurgence at Aragon.

Marquez is hunting for a ninth world title in tota♉l this year, his fiಞrst with the factory Ducati team.

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