Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez’s “when you wear red” verdict on a title scrap
“You need to fight for the championship! If noꩲt, another [rider] will take your bike!”

In the past, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez would ‘welcome’ new MotoGP team-mates to Repsol 𒆙Honda with a reminder that winning was expected.
After Jorge Lorenzo’s arrival to form a much-hyped ‘dream team’ for 2019, Marquez spelt out: “A dream𝔉 team is when you win the triple crown.”
As recently as Marquez’s final Hꦑonda launch, alongside another new team-mate and former champion in Joan Mir, Marquez had said:
“Both of us need to be winning races - if you wear these colours you have to, it’ಌs a🦩 must.”
The tables have now turned, with Marquez the newcomer in a Ducati Lenovo ‘dream team’ alongside fellow multi-champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia for 2025.
And when Bagnaia was quizz🦩ed on the likelihood of a title battle with Mar🐻quez during Monday’s team launch, the Spaniard could finish the sentence for him.
Bagnaia began: “When you're wearing the ൲red leathers, you𒅌 have to - he [Marquez] knows that this year…”
Marquez, with a wry smile, jumpedꩲ in: ꧂“You need to fight for the championship! If not, another [rider] will take your bike!”
Expanding on his answer, double champio🌠n Bagnaia - who narrowly lo🍨st out on a third crown to Jorge Martin last season - agreed that Marquez should be his ‘main contender’ but didn’t rule out a surprise.
“It’s difficult to ܫknow every season who the rival will be.
“But I think for the potential of the bike and from what we saw la🍨st year, Marc will be one of the hardest absolutely, h🍷e will be the main contender.
“Because he has one more year of experience with our bike. Tꦏhe new bike will absolutely suit him better because it's an improvement compared with what he was riding last ye꧅ar.
“And he was already doing an amazing job [last year], many 𒆙podiums, won three races.
“So I think [heꦦ] will be the main contender and we have to s🤡ee during the season who the others are.
“There could be someone else. But the main t𒁏wo I think are us.”
Marquez: “Main target is title top three”
Whilst🐽 acknowledging the need to fight for the title in factory colours, Marque🅷z insists he’d be satisfied to match last year’s achievement of a place in the world championship top three.
“Of course, my team-mate finished second or first the last four years, so he's super strong a⛎nd the normal thing is that he will be in front. 🦋Especially in the first races,” Marquez said.
“He won eleven races. He made some mistakes, yeah, but if you do🐓n't take a risk, you don't win eleven races. So in ꦰthe end, it's always a compromise.
“But as I said, I will try to learn from him, try to understand how I can find the best level with my riding style inside the🌃 Duca♕ti Lenovo team, and from that point, let's see.
“Trying to be in that top three at the end of the championship will be the main target. Of course, we ⭕will try to keep the focus on that title, but the main target is top three.”
Marquez, who won six premier-class titles from 20🧸13-2019, added:
“The target of the team is to try to win. If Pecco is not [able] to win🎶, I'll try to win. If I'm not [able] to win, he will try to win.”
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