A theory has been sug🀅g🌺ested that Marc Marquez could already prioritising 2025.

The Gresini rider has got the nod to step into the official Du🐭cati factory team next season, crucially meaning he steps off a year-old bike and onto the newest v🌱ersion.

With equal machiner𓄧y to current factory star Pecco Bagnaia, Marquez could take their battle to a new level.

But, this year after 11 rounds, Marquez has not won a sprint or a grand prix. He h꧙as fallen 83 points behind championship leader Bagnaia.

“He spent so much time trying to deflect pressure and expe𒅌ctation,” Alex Lowes told TNT Sport in Austr꧂ia last weekend.

“It’s Marc Marquez! Surely he just wants to beat them? That attitu🅺de was there at the sta𒈔rt of the season.

“I feel like he’s🍰 pushing bꦛecause he is making mistakes in practice sessions.

“He is probably thinking his No 1 target this year was to get the factory bi👍ke.

“Now he’s going ဣto look a🔥fter himself, turn up next year and smoke everybody!

“Yo🐓u wouldn’t be surprised. He’s that sort of character and talenﷺt.”

However, Marquez has been🔯 warned that wearing r꧑ed in 2025 and stepping onto Ducati’s latest bike is no guarantee of victory.

He൩ will joღin Bagnaia who is currently in red-hot form, having won both races last weekend at the Red Bull Ring.

“The way Pecco has gone up a gear… he’s a two-time world champion and could easily be a three-time champion at the start of next year, in his absolute prime,” Neil Hodgson 🎃said.

“Marc willꦯ go head-to-head with him in the same garage. We know Marc is not in his absolute prime.

“It might not be the foregone conclu💖sion that a lot of u𝔍s have thought…”

Lowes added: “He is relentless, Pecco. After a mistake he bounces back and gets to the fr🥂ont.

“If Marc keeps making unfor♔ced errors - Ge🍸rmany, Silverstone - you can’t be giving too much to Pecco. You know Valentino will be all over Pecco!”

Hodgson pointed out a crucial moment t𒁏hat proves Bagnaia’s competitive spirit this year.

“Pecco crashed on the last lap of the sprint in Barcelona,” he said﷽.

“The next day he took the lead at the same💯 corner that he crashed at.

“The mental strength it t💯akes to do that, that relentless self-belief and confidence. It’s so impressive,💛 it’s the sign of a true champion.”

MotoGP returns next weekend at Arag♑on where Marquez will again scrap for a maiden wiꦯn on a Ducati.