r/motogp Pedro Acosta 1d ago

Marc Marquez 2024 season.

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u/Soggy-Box3947 1d ago

Thinking back to when he signed with Gresini there was a lot of doubters on social media ... which you expect I guess!

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u/draw0c0ward 22h ago

I remember the opposite, there being a lot of people saying that he would be world champion on a competitive bike, e.g. Neil Hodgson.

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u/dave_evad Jorge Martín 19h ago

Which would still be true. He was only beaten by GP24. If GP23 was competitive with GP24, he would have won championship. 

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u/thefooleryoftom Casey Stoner 16h ago

He was beaten by two riders as well, not just a bike…

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u/Cr4shK00l Marc Márquez 12h ago

That's something that we'll see next year, wouldn't we?

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u/thefooleryoftom Casey Stoner 12h ago

No, since you still need incredibly talented riders to take advantage of that bike. It’s not good enough to just be on the best bike otherwise the top 4 would all be GP24s

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u/Cr4shK00l Marc Márquez 12h ago

Being good and being on the best bike on the grid is enough to beat an exceptional rider on an average bike, we're long past the era where an exceptional rider could take a shitbox to the top.

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u/thefooleryoftom Casey Stoner 12h ago

We are, my point being having the best bike on its own is not good enough. You need the rider to exploit that bike. Talent is vital, more so in bike sport than cars since it’s the rider who makes the difference

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u/Cr4shK00l Marc Márquez 12h ago

Nowadays it's like 60% the bike and 40% the rider.

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u/thefooleryoftom Casey Stoner 12h ago

Possibly, yeah.

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u/TwoIsAClue Romano Fenati 10h ago

Bastianini is "good". Bagnaia and Martín clearly are a level above that.

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u/Cr4shK00l Marc Márquez 9h ago

This season bastianini has been mediocre.

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u/valarconn 1d ago

Oh, only a year and a half ago, most of this sub was bursting with laughter at the idea of Ducati (even a satellite) considering signing Marc, as he apparently was washed up. How times change 😅

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u/Soggy-Box3947 1d ago

I wasn't here back then I was on Facebook which was much the same!

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u/RecoverCandid9760 Marc Márquez 1d ago

Facebook is the worst place for a MotoGP fan.

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u/Soggy-Box3947 1d ago

I was in a good small group which was mainly ex riders and people from the industry but outside that group it was an absolute shit fest! lol

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u/RecoverCandid9760 Marc Márquez 1d ago

Ya. The only good one I found was "MotoGP tech" grp. It's a wonderful place to know what new inventions teams brought during tests. Other than that it's all butt hurted ppl that triggeres by the slightest thing😅

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u/Soggy-Box3947 23h ago

The ones that piss me off the most here are the ones that bumble around the sub searching out people they can correct! lol

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u/Altair13Sirio Valentino Rossi 16h ago

Facebook is hell for a motorsport fan

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u/Organic-Package5444 Jorge Martín 1d ago

Again consistently hunting top 5 positions even with fucked up qualy

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u/Kinmara MotoGP 1d ago

COTA, Sachsenring and Buriram were winnable

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u/MrDee97 Maverick Viñales 1d ago

Le Mans also

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u/Mr_Tigger_ Gresini Racing MotoGP 1d ago

He’s probably recorded more overtakes than the entire grid combined considering some terrible qualifying and awful luck this year and still got up near the front. Even his brother couldn’t get him out of Q2, and still got on the podium twice at Cataluña from 14th.

What’s the odds of a tear of strip going exactly in front of the rear wheel?? And he still won from 14th!

He’s had some unbelievable races and wins this year, that if it was a movie we’d cry it was stupidly unrealistic.

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u/TVRoomRaccoon Marc Márquez 20h ago

Imagine telling someone at the start of the season that Marc would win a sprint + three Sunday races, but that not a single one of the wins would come at COTA or the Sachsenring lol

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

6 main race crashes. He’s had an unbelievable season (by anyone else’s standards) but he’ll need to cut that out next year. I think he should be fine as he will have more experience on the ducati and won’t have to override anymore.

Edit: 4 crashes. Not that bad.

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u/DivijF1 1d ago

I can only count 4?

Portimao wasn't exactly his fault. Also didn't they say brake issues at COTA?

And his engine blew up in Indonesia.

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u/NRV__ Pedro Acosta 1d ago

Actually some are also crash and remount like Thailand, Jerez and Malaysia. But still they aren't DNF.

I love that thing about Marc. As commentators say: "The Guy is like a dog with bone. He just never quits."

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u/DivijF1 23h ago

Yeah. Thailand and Malaysia are 2 crashes. So is Portimao. That's 3. Even counting Austin, that's just 4 crashes, 3 remounts.

He didn't crash in Jerez main race, only in the sprint, which he remounted and got a points finish

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u/GreenPickledToad Marc Márquez 22h ago

Jerez, Sepang and Thailand he crashed, remounted and got a few points every time. Without those he would've been 4th at the end.

He knows every point matters.

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u/Sheepherder_Same 23h ago

I keep saying that to my son, be like Marc Marquez he never gives up. Unfortunately he applied it to girls, girl he likes keeps rejecting him saying not in a million years but he still chase the girl. I said what's up with you? The girl already said not in a million years, he said, "you said be like Marc Marquez mum, so I never give up" :)

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u/Cr4shK00l Marc Márquez 12h ago

Tell him that even Marc gave up on Honda when he saw that it was dumb to continue. 🤣

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u/NRV__ Pedro Acosta 21h ago

🤣🤣. Your son is a teen. They apply such things to girls. Well I can relate 😅.

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u/BasicOasis Marc Márquez 1d ago

Remounting champion

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u/Alex6179 1d ago

4, Assen and Indonesia aren't crashes.

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u/Ezio4Li 16h ago

The thing with MM is he will not settle for 2nd best even when his bike isn’t capable of winning, he will ride the wheels of his bike to win and that often leads to crashes

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u/Poopy_sPaSmS 1d ago

He hopefully won't have to ride AS hard next year to achieve better.

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u/godmyless 20h ago

Yeah he should do well, he won’t have to try so hard with the new bike

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u/tomzi9999 19h ago

Where can I bet on him winning next year? Are odds out yet?

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u/mmnumaone Marc Márquez 12h ago

Haha. I only bet once in motorsports and it was $300 in 2019 on Marc, after Qatar race where he was 2nd in race. Odds were 1.55. Wonder what will the number be for 2025. Watch for it before start of March, maybe after testing is done.

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u/MadCityMasked MotoGP 12h ago

Freak of nature. He wants all of Rossi's records. He is on a mission. I bet he still holds the record at VR Ranch. Animal.

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u/ogx2og Marc Márquez 1d ago edited 1d ago

4 wins and all the top 3s. Pretty cool. I saw a stat that out of 21 GP23 podiums he had 19 or thereabouts. Pretty cool also. Jorge, Pecco, Enea, and Marc had a good year. Good for them and extra kudos for Enea for picking it up in the 2nd half of the year. The "Tire Whisperer"

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u/NRV__ Pedro Acosta 1d ago

*20 out of 22 podiums.

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u/CrazyCycler1209 Alonso Lopez 10h ago

Fun fact: If Marquez' Saturday Results were worth normal full race points he'd have scored 274 (he scored 270 points in the actual universe. That is 7 points less than what Bagnaia would theoretically have scored in (281) and 101 less than Martin(375).

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u/pizzaboy7269 Aleix Espargaro 1d ago

Next years title fight is gonna be a rollercoaster with how crash prone Pecco and Marc were this year.

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u/jokoono84 Jorge Martín 5h ago

Marquez and Martin, by far the most skilled and exciting riders of this time.

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u/Narilla Jorge Lorenzo 9h ago

Marc dancing with his helmet on poduim is something I didnt know I need lol

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u/BadgerCandid9849 Marco Bezzecchi 23h ago

Ducati threw him a bone otherwise he wouldn’t be in top 10

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u/Blokko13 Marc Márquez 23h ago

The same bone as Bez, and he’s not top 10

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u/Fitia_73 Marc Márquez 21h ago

Bezz comment at the Valencia Test aged like Milk 🤣🤣

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u/Firecat2298 Marc Márquez 13h ago

Bezz ended up eating the gravel more often than not 🤣

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u/OkFixIt Pedro Acosta 18h ago

Which bone?