Despite winning five of the six races so far this season, Marc Marquez is wary heading into the Qatar Grand Prix.

Ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix, Marc Marquez has admitted that it is the first race weekend where his rivals are 'theoretically' faster than him.

Marquez has been the dominant force throughout the 2025 MotoGP World Championship. The factory Ducati rider has won five of the six races across the opening three race weekends of the season.

However, after crashing at the Circuit of the Americas, he is no longer the Championship leader and is now one point behind his brother.

Marquez has not won at the Lusail International Circuit since 2014 and believes that Alex Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia will be a bigger threat to him this weekend than at any previous round.

"It’s the first circuit that theoretically Alex and Pecco are better than me, by the historic results," he said on Thursday in Qatar.

"But let’s see what I can do. If here I am competitive, it will be a very good sign for me. If not, I’ll try to work to improve."

Marquez was also questioned about his crash at the Grand Prix of the Americas, but he brushed off the crash and claimed that 'it is racing'.

“This is racing. The good thing is that we crashed leading the race by two seconds and a half and I was riding in a very good way,” he added.

“Yeah, I did a mistake, but I know why: I slowed down too much on that Turn 3, and then I jumped in too early on that Turn 4.

“But ok, it happened. The good thing is with that big mistake still we are second in the championship, just one point behind the leader.

“So, here it looks like everything restarts and let’s see what we can do during the weekend.”