Ducati launch: Inside Marquez and Bagnaia's debut as team-mates
Added 2025-01-21 10:55:07 +0000 UTCSimon Patterson reports from a pause in the four days of festivities, multiple unveilings and ski races that kicks off Ducati’s 2025 MotoGP season to join Val Khorounzhiy and Matt Beer on The Race MotoGP Podcast.
They discuss how Marc Marquez, Pecco Bagnaia and Ducati bosses tackled the potential pitfalls of the new superteam all-champion line-up.
With all the talk at the launch extremely measured and polite, is this just the calm before an on-track storm or a sign of how Marquez and Bagnaia will actually get on during a title fight? Or are we past the ‘age of the bastard’ these days?
All that, their difference in racing ethics, whether Ducati will be more or less dominant in 2025 and everything both Marquez and Ducati have given up in order to get together is discussed too, as well as how Marc’s old team Gresini kicked off its campaign at Imola a few days earlier.
Comments
The crew seemed to really enjoy themselves on this one, which made it particularly good. Maybe the race needs to have you all recording in a chalet from here on out?
MitchMcNuggets
2025-01-22 06:47:10 +0000 UTCOne thing I like so much about your podcast is that it feels so relaxed. Don't try too hard to be slick
Gordon
2025-01-22 00:31:12 +0000 UTCI love how Simon inadvertantly describes himself as the Joan Mir of skiing!!!!
Goose
2025-01-21 20:58:05 +0000 UTCI think the word Simon is looking for to describe Pecco is cerebral.
David Martin
2025-01-21 12:41:11 +0000 UTC
