Marc Márquez joins Gresini’s MotoGP team this year, where he will ride a Ducati after a decade with Honda. For that reason, he himself recognizes that he will have to adapt to a different bike and that will take time.
However, Stefan Bradl – who continues with Honda as a test rider – told the website SPEEDWEEK.com that he hopes the six-time champion adapts and quickly starts using the necessary riding style: ‘All MotoGP riders are at such a high level that they can quickly adapt to a bike from another manufacturer. This also applies to Marc. He will soon use the Ducati style‘.
This was part of the German’s response to a question about being the oldest rider at Honda at the moment, to which he also replied: ‘MotoGP has changed in such a way that you can no longer make a big difference as a rider due to all the technical devices that have been added. […] I am just a small part of Honda’s MotoGP system. I give my impressions, my feelings about the bike. This is my job, which I do to the best of my ability – and apparently not too badly, otherwise I wouldn’t be in my seventh year. Implementing changes is the job of the engineers. Marc also understood that at Honda: it is not the job of the rider to demand a softer or more flexible swingarm here and less there‘.
