Marc Marquez’s two-year manufacturing unit Ducati contract means the Spaniard will race in MotoGP no less than till the tip of the present engine guidelines in 2026.
There’ll then be main modifications for 2027, with the introduction of smaller 850cc engines mixed with a discount in aerodynamics and a ban on ride-height units.
The eight-time world champion, who joined MotoGP through the second yr of 1000cc engines in 2013, doubts that the minimize in engine capability will change lap occasions an excessive amount of.
“There would be the regulation change in 2027, with much less aerodynamics and barely decrease engine displacement, however I believe the bikes will nonetheless run the identical,” Marquez mentioned.
“As a result of I do not understand how the factories do it however, in the long run, they all the time make them [as] quick once more.”
Nevertheless, Marquez believes lowering aero will help overtaking, whereas the removing of experience peak units – together with holeshot units for race begins – will put extra management again into the arms of the riders.
“The actual fact of utilizing much less aerodynamics I believe it is good, particularly as a result of I believe that may result in extra overtaking and the rider could make just a little extra of a distinction,” he mentioned.
“The problem of [ride] peak units additionally modifications. I believe that the much less technical units a motorcycle has, the extra distinction the rider could make. And the extra technical elements you might have, the extra it is going to make you rely on the [engineers].”
Marc Marquez
“One of the vital necessary issues in 2024 was to not undergo accidents”
Marquez didn’t simply return to the highest step of the MotoGP podium with Gresini Ducati final yr, he additionally accomplished a season with out harm for the primary time since 2017.
That had been adopted by main shoulder surgical procedures within the winters of 2018 and 2019, 4 operations on the appropriate arm fracture from Jerez 2020, two circumstances of diplopia, a thumb fracture at Portimao 2023 plus a number of different ‘non surgical’ accidents.
“My bodily situation is sweet,” Marquez mentioned. “On the identical time, as you possibly can ask any physician, after severe accidents it is troublesome to succeed in the identical degree.
“In order that’s the place you must work just a little tougher than earlier than. Attempt to give attention to the weak factors that the accidents have left in me with and, from there, attempt to carry out to the utmost to be prepared from pre-season.
“One of the vital necessary issues in 2024 was to not undergo accidents, though they arrive while you don’t anticipate them, but it surely was important to have that consistency, that good inertia and to make that bodily step that has additionally been good for me.
“That is what now we have this winter for, to strengthen the weak factors and begin the 2025 season on the highest degree.”
Marquez, who was fourth quickest on his manufacturing unit Ducati debut at November’s Barcelona take a look at, will likely be again on the GP25 when official pre-season testing begins at Sepang in February.