Alex Marquez on leading MotoGP standings: ‘Pressure is on the others to catch me’

Gresini’s Alex Marquez leads MotoGP point🥂s for the first time

Alex Marquez, Gresini Ducati, 2025 Qatar MotoGP
Alex Marquez, Gresini Ducati, 2025 Qatar MotoGP
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New MotoGP championship leader Alex Marquez says he “c𓄧an be more relaxed” coming into the Qatar Grand Prix because the pressure is on everyone else now to catch him.

A 100% record of runner-up finishes in 2025 so far, coupled with the crash for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez at the Americas Grand Prix, has seen 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez take a one-point lead🌠 in the standings ahead of this weekend’s fourth round of the season.

The Gresini rider has never led the championship in MotoGP before and comes to a good venue for his team, who have celebrated maiden wins with Enea Bastianini and Fabio Di Gi🐽annantonio is recent years at Lusail.

Speaking on Thursday in Qatar 🦂about whether or not leading the championship changes anything for him, Alex Marquez said: “I mean, yeah, it’s another weekend, a normal weekend, but you can be m൲ore relaxed - it’s the others who have to recover points.

“I mean, you have that inside. But for us, for all th🎐e team, it’s like a present after all the hard work we did du🐽ring last year and that we are doing this year, during the pre-season and all that.

“I think we did a really great job. L♍eading no💮w, like I said, is like a present.

“So, we need to keep going like this. We are in really good form. It’s true that in Austin we struggled a little 🔯bit more than normal, especially in Sunday’s race because I♔ was not feeling super good with the medium rear tyre.

“꧃But we need to be tꦆhere. We need to be realistic in our performance, in our things, trying not to make mistakes and trying to finish all the races. We are doing a really great job.

“[This] is just a normal weekend, try to extract the 100% as always and be as fast as we caꩵn.”

The Qa♏tar GP has been a solid event for Alex Marquez in recent times, with the 2💝8-year-old scoring top six finishes in the 2024 and 2023 races.

But he is reticent to use his past form an𝔍d his current run of results as proof that this weekend will automatical𝓰ly go in his favour.

“It’s a good track for me, but I mean I have experience from the past that many tracks you arrive to that you love ♏and you are struggling more than at ones where you struggle a lot at in the past,” he explained.

“So, like I said, it’s like a n🅰ormal weekend for us, we need to extract the 100% potential from the FP1 and try to be really consistent and try to arrive on Sunday in a really good form.

“So, as I said, it’s a normal weekend, try to be focused until Sunday night and we’ll take our maximum and give our maximum as always to score the maximum points that we🌠 can.”

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