The opening round of a brand-new season is in the history books as 2025’s MotoGP™ season now has something to go off. Whilst a lot of the conversation is around the Championship order – such as a Marquez 1-2 and a rather fast rookie in fifth – we get under the skin of some of trending stories from Thailand’s Grand Prix Sunday and more below.

“I’m in a dream!”

It really couldn’t have been a better start to 2025 for Marc Marquez: “To start this new journey with Ducati Lenovo with pole position and a double victory, it’s something amazing. Then share the first and second position with your brother in MotoGP in the top category, we can’t have more in a normal weekend with the top riders here. Just Martin; we are missing him. Emotionally speaking, incredible. I’m in a dream. In Spanish TV it was even difficult to speak. We’re in MotoGP; we don’t have more. Of course, if you ask Alex he will say, next time opposite. But it’s incredible. He said to me checking the championship, “It’s only the first race but we are first and second, both Marquez.” So I cannot imagine how my father and my mom, my grandfather and grandmother that are in the sky, their emotions.

Going into more detail about his tyre pressure concerns, Marc continued: “The first two laps, I felt smooth and fast; I was riding in a very good way. Then, I saw that the tyre pressure was not in a correct range, it was too low. I started to brake harder, alone for two laps to see where I was able to recover a bit but I was not able to alone. I decided to wait for Alex. I was counting the laps, remembering I just have three laps of margin. So, for that reason, I stayed behind him until three laps to go. Then, when I saw I was already inside the minimum laps, I decide to attack.”

“We’re still a little behind the level compared to Marc and Pecco”

First of all, I was like, maybe there’s a red flag? I was on the apex and I didn’t see any light.. Just later on I felt maybe he had a problem, because I had also a little bit the same problem. But in that moment, I said, ‘his front pressure is down and he wants to heat a little bit the front tire’. We are still a little bit behind the level compared to Marc and Pecco. But this gives to us a good base and we need to keep working like that.

"I think Marc played with us a bit… I have to improve, learn what he’s doing”

Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) comes away with two podiums but didn’t have the pace for his new teammate, despite a tense middle portion of Sunday’s Grand Prix: “I think Marc played a bit with us today, also for the pressure, but as soon as he decided to go he gave to me 2.3 seconds in three laps. He was much, much faster and I have to improve, learn what he is doing better and close this gap. I know that the next two or three weekends are very good for both of them, but I need to be closer.

"I was just trying to copy what Pecco was doing”

Speaking on Saturday after a stunning P4 on his debut, Ai Ogura (Trackhouse MotoGP Team) spoke about learning from following Pecco in the Sprint: “I think that's exactly what I learned from Pecco. I was just trying to copy what he was doing. Because to ride behind Pecco for 13 laps is really quality for me. I learnt to be smooth! It's a big, big surprise; from Friday during the session, I went a little more, a little more, and well, in the qualifying I was gaining the lap time in the braking, then I did quite a good lap. So, I just improved a little bit. I thought the riders were going to ride much more aggressive, but they were riding smooth, so it was more my riding, so I was happy.

“It’s not better, not worse, almost how I expected to begin”

A fine Aprilia debut for Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia Racing), with the Italian coming home P6 on Sunday: “In the end, it's not better, not worse, it's almost how I expected to begin the season. To be honest, I wanted to be better in qualifying. Still, in the time attacks, I'm not the best. I didn't try many time attacks in testing, because of the items to try, so we didn't concentrate a lot on that, and I think that I'm paying a bit for this lack of time attacks in testing. It's the point where I have to improve the most. I think where I have to ride even more by instinct, I'm used to doing what I was doing in the past years, so the bike doesn't always except how I ride in time attacks.”

“The whole fairing sort of started deploying… we stuck in there and gritted our teeth!”

A more complicated first Grand Prix with Yamaha machinery than he’d have hoped, Jack Miller (Prima Pramac Yamaha MotoGP) had some multi-tasking to do: “I had a little issue with the fairing from around Lap 8 when I lost touch with the front group. One of the clips unfortunately popped out and the whole fairing sort of started deploying, and as you know aero these days, it’s kind of essential to help with bike turning. When you’d get up to speed, it would kind of pop out even more and I was getting nervous that obviously doing 330kp/h down the back straight that it was going to ‘auto deploy’. I was trying to hold it together as much as I could. It got pretty warm on the arm there and was directing all the heat onto my legs… It made, like I said, an uncomfortable race even more uncomfortable! But we stuck in there and gritted our teeth and were able to bring home a couple of points!”

“It looks like this year, it’s much easier to unload the rear”

An early crash halted Pedro Acosta’s (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) charge and ‘El Tiburon’ explained what happened: “Well, we need to understand, because it looks like this year, it's much easier to unload the rear. I unloaded the rear behind Bezzecchi, I was a little bit wide, sliding too much and then I lost the front. Quite a normal crash, but we need to understand why this unloaded. We need to understand many things of how this bike is working, because it's something we are missing.”

“We have to go for it!”

Confirming that Honda’s aims should be the top five, Joan Mir (HRC Honda Castrol): “Yeah, we have to go for it. I think the Ducatis, at the moment we cannot compete with them, but with all the rest, I think we can. I think we showed in this race what we can do. This is something that keeps me boosted for the next one, and hopefully we can find a solution about this thing of the heat, because honestly it was hard.”