MotoGP: Francesco Bagnaia has claimed his third successive MotoGP Italian Grand Prix victory after charging to victory in Tuscany.
It was a six-day window that turned the MotoGP silly season into something downright ridiculous – and one where, as the dust settles from the most frenzied periods of free agency anyone can recall, the 2025 grid has been shaped before the 2024 season ever got up to full speed.
It was a velvet sledgehammer delivered with Marquez’s customary grin and lively eyes, one that played perfectly to his Machiavellian reputation and demonstrated that, for the first time since his 2020 Spanish Grand Prix crash and the subsequent injuries that changed MotoGP’s time continuum, he feels like he’sagain.
Part of what makes Martin so rapid is that he carries a perpetual sense of injustice onto the bike with him, explaining his volcanic qualifying pace as much as his propensity to crash from advantageous positions, his obsession with continually pushing the envelope his worst enemy in a 2023 title fight he lost as much as Bagnaia won.
Marquez is 12 years into his MotoGP tenure and has been ravaged by injuries in recent times; Martin is five years younger, the sport’s fastest one-lap rider, and one who – so far this season – has showed he’s able to learn, cutting back on the self-inflicted wounds that derailed his 2023 campaign. Marquez’s arrival and the oxygen that sucks out of any room will challenge that idyllic workplace. Bagnaia wanted Miller to remain his teammate before Ducati signed Bastianini, and expressed his preference for Bastianini to stay over either Martin or Marquez for 2025; partly because he craves continuity, and more than partly because he knew he had the beating of both, removing a variable from the mix.
The Japanese factory hasn’t won a race for nearly two years, and double the machines on the grid can only fast-track its possible ascension if Pramac jumps ship.Should Pramac move to Yamaha and Ducati go from eight bikes to six, there’s a host of MotoGP’s lesser-known but fast-rising riders who’ll need to update their CVs, and pronto.
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