Ducati brought his strongness In 2025 Thai MotoGP, as they swept podiums with Marc Marquez emerging victorious after a clean weekend where he also won pole, the sprint race and his first grand prix win as a Ducati rider. In a repeat of the sprint results on Saturday, his brother Alex Marquez and reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia completed an all-Ducati podium in the same order.
Marc was in the front for the first portion of the race where he remained in first until lap 7 where he got clobbered by Alex of Gresini’s GP24 getting on the gress bike. Marc regained the lead on lap 23, and created a sizable gap of 1.732 s. His pace did drop a little bit because of what many thought was a mechanical problem, but he eventually settled in behind the brother which looked like it was behind for pace reasons. Toward the latter part of the race, Alex was in a battle with the GP24 for rear grip, and Marc was able to operate perfectly balance into the pole position.
Alex started off the 2025 season strongly, with two second places to Gresini in Buriram, with Bagnaia also closing in mid race but settles for third, 0.666s off the winner. Franco Morbidelli rounded off the top 4 for VR46 Ducati and was around 3 seconds behind the battle for the podium after briefly getting ahead of Bagnaia in the third position.
Trackhouse Racing’s Ai Ogura was the first amongst the rookies and finished 5th while Aprilias factory rider Marco Bezzecchi came in sixth over seven seconds off the pace. Johann Zarco finished as the top Honda in 7th position followed by Brad Binder in a KTM, Enea Bastianini with Tech3 and Fabio Di Giannantonio from VR46 to round off the top ten at the Thai MotoGP.
Marquez has been touted as the pre season favorite for 2025 since earning a factory Ducati seat after a great campaign with Gresini last year, and teamed up with multi time world champion Bagnaia. They have been pointed out by Neil Hodgson, MotoGP presenter on TNT Sports, to be some of the main threats in the title chase. Motorsports On SI said:
“Both have insane talent, for sure.”
“Marco has more world titles to his name but I reckon Pecco is still blossoming and an absolute beast.”
- “You definitely don’t want to write off Pecco Bagnaia. He tends to have a pretty mediocre at Friday and sometimes Saturday, and then win the Grand Prix on Sunday.
- “That can go on and on.”
- “Of course, both riders will push each other extremely hard. They share data so they can copy each other’s homework which will force them to push.”
- “We’re gonna have a repeating season cycle like the previous year where two riders will be pushing each other for the win.”
- “There will lots of other issues too. There will be a lot of crashes. I do believe they will collide with each other and I believe this is an obvious expectation because we’ve witnessed it before.”
