Marc Márquez arrives in Ducati with the intention of taking a new title, the ninth of his sports career and the seventh in MotoGP. The Spanish owned and lord of the championship in the second half of the last decade, but since his accident in 2020 he had not had real options to fight for the title, until this 2025 that we are close to starting. And if you have options, it is, more or more, because it is in the official Ducati team with Pecco Bagnaia as a couple.
A high -voltage duo that is called to fight each other for the title. Before starting even the preseason tests, everyone seems to be clear that number one should fall on one of them. After all, they are the most laureate duo of the championship and between the two add up, neither more nor less, than 11 World Cups, eight of them on MotoGP.
That also makes them one of the most powerful duos in MotoGP’s history, where we have also seen couples of high flights and tremendously successful. Of course, of all experiences with two tremendous champions in the same box, there is only one that is free from really difficult situations. After all, both talent in a single box can make the tension excessive.
NATO TALATING APOSE: Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa
Of the most important couples of the MotoGP era we start with that of Stoner and Pedrosa. Although between the two there are “only” 5 titles, and it is Stoner who accumulates the two of MotoGP, it is possibly one of the most powerful combinations. Stoner’s premature withdrawal caused us to enjoy them more, but the talent of both conjugate was a difficult weapon to beat.
Shadow duels: Marc Márquez and Dani Pedrosa
When Marc arrived at MotoGP to replace Casey Stoner. Theoretically Dani was the leader of the formation and Marc the apprentice, but Marc took the opportunity, learned quickly from his partner and soon placed himself at the head of the team.
The 2013 World Cup could have stopped at the hands of Dani Pedrosa or Jorge Lorenzo, but both were injured, Marc did not forgive and also lived high tension moments with a pedrosa that despite his talent was progressively losing weight at the time at the time to direct the evolution of a Honda. Finally, it ended up being ungovernable even for Marc.
Sick rival: Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo
If we spoke sparks, this is the strongest rivalry of all. We are not only facing the couple with more titles (Valentino 9 and 5 of Jorge) but also of a fight without barracks for being Yamaha’s number 1. Jorge arrived at Yamaha when Valentino was already an institution in the brand and had made the M1 the motorcycle they all wanted.
As Jorge’s competitiveness was increasing, the level tension was uploading until in 2010 Lorenzo achieved the title and Valentino ended up going to Ducati. That march of Rossi was only a parenthesis, because in 2013 Rossi was back in every way. And although Lorenzo took the title in 2015, in the end he had to leave Yamaha that, through Lin Jarvis, always preferred Rossi.
No time to fight: Marc Márquez and Jorge Lorenzo
After leaving Ducati, Jorge Lorenzo reached a sling that was no longer the most desired motorcycle of the grill and wanting to evolve the motorcycle. Replacing Dani Pedrosa, Jorge had ahead of the role of living with his maximum rival of recent years and making the Honda again be competitive.
When it seemed that everything was beginning to take an optimal dynamic, several falls and especially that of Assen made Lorenzo end up retiring. Those problems of Jorge and his lack of performance avoided direct confrontation, although in 2019 Marc was still able to take performance to an ungovernable motorcycle and took the title of pilots and, thanks the 28 points that Lorenzo added, also those of teams and Builders
