Marc Marquez responds to Bagnaia ‘super good or a disaster’ team-mate quip

Marc Marquez believes competition with Francesco Bagnaia as team-mates next year will raise the 𒈔level of both riders - wants Pecco to win the 2024 title if he can't.

Marc Marquez, Francesco Bagnaia, 2024 Austrian MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Francesco Bagnaia, 2024 Austrian MotoGP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez ‘thinks, hopes and wishes’ that his relationship inside the factory Ducati garage with fellow multi-time MotoGP champion Francesco Bagna🍎ia ‘𝓰will be good’ in 2025.

Currently competing for Gresini during hi🌼s debut Ducati campaign, Marquez was responding to Bagnaia’s words during an interview with MotoGP.com, where the Italian said their future partnership “could🔴 be super good, or a disaster!”

“So we will have to see next year when we start," Bagnaia added. "𒉰C𒁏ould be a disaster if in case we start to scream or we start to have some ‘discussions’.

"But I think we are both very smart and he will adapt 𒐪perfectly,” Bagnaia added.

Asked by Dorna’s Louis Suddaby about those words on the eve of this weekend’s A🔯ustrian MotoGP, Marquez emphasised the benefit of having two top riders as team-mates:

“I think, I hope and I wish that the relationship inside the garage will be good and in the end, I think competition inside the garage incr💯eases the𝕴 level of [both] riders.

“It’s always been like this an💯d always will be. I can learn from him, especially because he’s the top Ducati rider.”

Quizzed on the same topic during the official pre-event press conference Marquez also highlighted that, while it’s a new situation for him to move into the team of a MotoGP champion, he’s been pair🌼ed with ꩲmany top riders before (and beaten them all).

“It’ll be a new experience for me🏅 because [before] I was in the Repsol Honda team and the defending [champion]... Jorge Lorenzo arrived, Joan Mir arrived, who were two world champions.

"[But] it was a different situation because I knew better the bike. This will be a new experience for me because P⛦ecco is the reference inside Ducati. He has the number one on his fairing, he is super fast, and I need to learn a lot from him and how he rides.

“Of course [already] now I have the data, but inside the same garage is always different 🌊and from that point and I hope that we can help each other. Because in the end if he's✨ competitive and I'm competitive, this will be the biggest help inside the garage to increase our level.”

While the three riders ahead of him in the world championship - Jorge Martin, Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini - then struggled with the question of who they would like to be 2024 champion if they could not take th🎉e title, Marquez gave a clear answer:

“Pecco.”

Why?

“Because he will be my next team-mate, and I prefe🦋r to have the current world champion inside the🔯 garage.”

Bagnaiaꦏ starts the 11th of 20 rounds just three points behind Martin at the top of the standings. Double Silverstone winner Enea B﷽astianini is 49 points from the top and Marquez 62 adrift.

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