In these days, an old image has become viral with the two Ducati pilots. Marc was 17 years old, Pecco 13 and asked him a photo together: “My leader said to me: ‘We will talk about him for a long time”
Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez opened 2025 side by side, smiling and promising satisfaction to the Lenovo Ducati Team. Their internal challenge will be one of the themes in the MotoGP World Cup. And who knows if, during the season, at least one of them will rethink the first time they met. A meeting that took place in 2010, when the seventeen year old Marc was preparing to take flight in 125 with Derbi, while Pecco, four -year -old younger, competed in the categories that lead to the world championship.
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The first time together between Marquez and Bagnaia was immortalized by a photo that portray them side by side. An image that soon became viral and the subject of a question during the meeting with the media in Madonna di Campiglio. After the presentation of the Ducati, the Italian, three times world champion, told how things went: “I remember perfectly that day. It was the season in which Marc won his first title. We were perhaps at the second or third test of the season with the Monlau Competition, in Barcelona. Marc was there to train with the supermotard. He went to greet us and so I asked him for a photo because the year before he had impressed me, carrying out a fantastic job with KTM “. Pecco also remembers another detail: “My leader said to me: ‘We have to look at him well this season, we will talk about Marquez for a long time”. An appropriate forecast, as shown by the eight titles of the Spaniard.
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Questioned on the photo, Marc admitted that he did not precisely remember the details: “I have a selective memory”. The Spaniard appears very concentrated on a 2025 that will see him again in the condition of pretender to the title. And the Tutto Ducati derby stimulates its own Bagnaia: “After that photo and after being opponents, we are building something special together. It’s really very nice. “
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