If it takes a champion to know a champion, Marc Marquez will not care who his 2027 MotoGP teammate is.
That is what five-time 500cc title winner Mick Doohan thought when requested about Pedro Acosta’s anticipated transfer alongside Marquez within the Ducati manufacturing unit workforce.
“There’s been no official announcement and I can not touch upon the rumors, however as a rider I can inform you that whether or not it is my time or Marc Marquez’s time, Marc is concentrated on himself,” Doohan stated. maruca.com.
Doohan added that whereas it is pure for producers to purpose for the strongest rider line-up, a champion has to beat everybody on the grid.
“To win a race or a world championship, it’s important to beat everybody, together with your teammates. The very best riders do not care who their teammates are,” he stated.
“The identical factor applies in F1, Verstappen would not care who his teammates are.
“The (incoming) teammates are the gamers it’s important to fear about profitable greater than the established gamers.”
Marquez insists he doesn’t intrude within the collection of team-mates and was beforehand paired with fellow MotoGP champions Jorge Lorenzo and Joan Mir at Repsol Honda.
The tables had been then turned when Marquez joined Ducati’s manufacturing unit workforce alongside former double champion Pecco Bagnaia.
Nonetheless, like Lorenzo and Mir, Bagnaia has not been in a position to threaten Marquez with the identical automotive.
If the anticipated pairing of Marquez and Acosta does materialize, Doohan expects it to be an in depth race between two riders at very totally different phases of their careers.
“Acosta is extremely proficient. What he is doing at KTM is nice. It should be troublesome for each of them. They’re each Spanish and extremely proficient,” he stated.
“Marc isn’t younger anymore and there’s a younger man with expertise who’s extremely quick and an outdated man who needs to beat Marc.
“Likewise, Mark doesn’t wish to lose to a youthful man.
“But when[Acosta]turns into a Ducati rider… it would not matter. If Bezzecchi rode that bike, it will be the identical,” Doohan reiterated.
Ducati had a harder begin to 2026 than anticipated, however Acosta completed third on this planet championship, with present nine-time champion Marquez fifth.
Bagnaia may be a part of Aprilia alongside present title chief Marco Bezzecchi.
