Last year, Álex Márquez had his best season in MotoGP, finishing eighth overall. However, he expected to achieve a bit more, securing only one podium finish. A victory still eludes him, despite having one of the best bikes on the grid with the Ducati Desmosedici GP23.
In an interview broadcast on Nico Abad’s YouTube channel, the Gresini rider shared that the gap between his expectations and results turned out to be a valuable learning experience:
– I think 2024 was the year I learned the most in MotoGP because, in the end, when you have high expectations and somehow things don’t go as you expect, you learn much more. When everything is going well, with good results and good feelings, time kind of flies by, and you don’t stop to think about what you need to improve or what you need to do.
Márquez highlighted that it is during challenging moments that one gains the most insight and the ability to analyze what needs improvement: ‘It’s when things go wrong that you analyze everything in much more detail, you stay on top of things more, and you learn more. I learned, the team learned, in many ways. Having a bike we struggled with, having Marc [Márquez] in the garage – or dealing with everything that comes with having an eight-time world champion in the garage, the pressure it involves. And I think we all took a very important step. I think 2024 can be useful for 2025 for all of us’.