Marc Marquez will head to Silverstone eyeing a first British Grand Prix win since 2014 as the 2025 MotoGP championship leader, but he does not expect to be the favourite.
The Ducati rider has dominated the early rounds of the 2025 MotoGP season, with Marquez scooping three Grand Prix wins plus an unbeaten six Sprint victories. His second place in the French GP last time out also took Marquez 22 points clear at the top of the riders’ standings.
But Silverstone has seldom been a happy hunting ground for the six-time MotoGP champion thus far. Marquez took his sole premier class British GP win with Honda in 2014, and the 32-year-old has also only got back on the podium once since winning with P2 in the 2019 meet.
Even Dani Pedrosa feeling like Marquez makes winning MotoGP races look easy after he won the Le Mans Sprint comfortably does not fill the Cervera native with total confidence that he will be the favourite at the British GP. Instead, he feels Silverstone will see a rival rider shine.
Marc Marquez backs Alex Marquez to be ‘super-fast’ at the British Grand Prix as Silverstone suits his style
Marquez is confident that the British GP will see the best from his brother, Alex Marquez, as Silverstone suits the Gresini star’s riding style. He also thinks the Northamptonshire venue is a stronger circuit for the 29-year-old than Le Mans was, despite Alex regularly pushing Marc.
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“We’ve shown good speed at all of the circuits,” Marquez said, via quotes by Marca. “Qatar was, for me, one of the most important Grands Prix. Now comes Silverstone, where we can expect Alex to be super-fast there.
“Normally, it’s a circuit he’s very good at in terms of riding style. He’ll be better than at Le Mans. Then, we’ll see if we can stay with the riders at the front, which is the goal.”
Alex Marquez needs to bounce back from his first big mistake of 2025 at Silverstone
Marc Marquez had enough speed in the Ducati racer’s pocket to manage the threat that his Gresini pilot brother Alex Marquez produced during the Le Mans Sprint. The younger of the siblings also hung onto his brother’s tail during the French GP before crashing on Lap 21/26.
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It was the first big mistake that the Gresini rider had made all season, other than when Alex Marquez hit Fabio Di Giannantonio in the Qatar Grand Prix and drew a long-lap penalty. He still managed to recover to P6 at Lusail, but retired for the first time this season at Le Mans.
Alex Marquez even upheld his run of finishing every Sprint Race so far this season in second place at the French GP, as Marc Marquez became the first MotoGP rider to win six Sprints in a row at Le Mans. It meant Alex saw a one-point lead in the standings flip to a 22-point gap.
