MotoGP is set for an “interesting” 2026 season, Marc Marquez thinks, but not only for the on-track action.

The apparent challenge presented to Ducati by Aprilia in particular towards the end of the 2025 season – in Marquez’s absence, of course – is something to look to for some kind of intrigue in the 2026 MotoGP season.

But off-track the 2026 season is set to feature among the most chaotic and complicated rider markets of recent seasons as a result of the wholesale technical changes coming for 2027, which include new tyres, smaller engines, scaled back aerodynamics, and the removal of ride height devices.

According to Marquez himself, it will be “the most difficult market” of his career to judge.

“It will be an interesting 2026 season and not only on the championship, on the race track, but also outside the race track, in the paddock, between the tracks,” he told MotoGP.com.

“This will be the most difficult market, during all my career in MotoGP – we never changed the rules; we changed the tyres, but then it’s quite easy to predict which will be the bike or which project is for you. 

“But no one can promise you which will be the best bike [in 2027], you need to follow your instincts. 

“If I continue as a rider, it’s because I think I can win; if not, I will stop. 

“Fight for the championship, this is the main, and this is the goal, must be the goal, and will be the pressure in my shoulders.”