debuts during pre-season testing with the official Ducati team

Crowded at the doors of box number 17 of Barcelona-Catalonia circuita swarm of photographers, cameramen and journalists had been waiting since 10:00 a.m. for the start of the track. Marc Marquez with his brand new Ducati Desmosedici GP25. An hour and a quarter later, the garage shutter The Ducati Lenovo Team He went up and the figure of the Spanish pilot emerged completely dressed in red from head to toe (suit, helmet, boots and gloves) to put on the handlebars of the GP25 embryo, also red.

Everything is red for Marc Márquez at the start of his career in the ranks of the official factory team Borgo Panigale, where he will have Pecco Bagnaia as a teammate for the next two seasons.

During his first outing on the track He completed five laps and achieved a time of (1:40.783), who left him in the sixth place in sixth provisional time, six tenths behind his brother Álex, who had then achieved the best time of the morning.

“The transition from GP23 to GP25 is a big step forward and We define the set-up with Marc Márquez» Davide Tardozzi explained shortly after, team leader from Ducati Lenovo, who stressed that Marc Márquez’s first impressions were generally good.