Alex Marquez says h🧜is brace of top five results in the final rounds of the 2024 MotoGP season were down to his Gresini๊ squad reverting to pre-season testing settings.

The 28-year-old was tipped to have a strong 2024 campaign have enjoyed occasional podium success in 2023 in his first season on the Ducati h✅aving switched from Honda.

Marquez also managed ♉two sprint wins in 2023, but the GP23 he jumped onto for last season✃ proved less competitive and harder to adapt to.

It took Marquez until the German G🦹P to get his first - and only - podium of the season, though he would manage back-to-back fourth-🐠place finishes in Malaysia and Barcelona at the end of the year.

Rather than this being track specific form, Marquez believes reverting to th🌟e base set-up he had in pre-season testing allowed him to get closer to the potential of the GP23.

“We came back a little bit to the base that we had in the preও-season in Malaysia and it’s the bike that I feel betꦐter on,” he said at the end of the 2024 season.

“Comparing to last year, I was not able to use a bike with a lot of weܫight on the rear, because the ’22 bike was a little bit on the opposite side.

“So, I was not able to understand the front in the beginning of the seaso🐻n.

“But, step by step we did better things and I was💎 a𓆏ble to extract, maybe not the maximum, but a good potential out of the bike.”

Marquez ended up second-best GP23 in eighth in the standings behind his brother Marc Marquez, who was thi🐎rd.

The younger Marquez brother remains with Gresini for the 2025 campaign and will inherit a GP24, which proved to be a significant step forwar𒆙d from the GP23.

He will be joined by rookie Fermin Aldeguer at the Duca🎀ti satellite team next year.